Igloo Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named igloo: press Copy for the snowflake and hut, or pick a typed igloo.

Igloo Emoji

❄️🛖IglooU+2744 U+FE0F U+1F6D6Ready to copy

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Closest emoji 18

Igloo symbols 6

Igloo emoticons 8

Igloo drawings 3

Igloo lines 6

Igloo combos 12

Next step The whole winter set, with a bigger iglooNext: cold, in faces and brr

How it works

Wikipedia calls an igloo a shelter built of snow, also known as a snow hut. Unicode has both halves, so the igloo emoji here is that name in two tiles: Snowflake, then Hut.

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Where the ice goes

Into the wall, as a window: by Wikipedia a single block of clear ice is sometimes set in to let light through. So 🧊🛖 is an igloo too. Ice is the only emoji CLDR, Unicode’s search word list, files under cube and iceberg.

The bear is a neighbour, the penguin is not

CLDR files arctic under one emoji, Polar bear, and antarctica under one, Penguin. Wikipedia places the igloo in Canada’s Central Arctic and part of Greenland, so 🐻‍❄️ belongs beside it and 🐧 is at the wrong pole.

  • (_n_) is a dome and a door in five plain characters, for a field that turns emoji away.

Questions and answers

Is there an igloo emoji?

Not by that name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, has no igloo, and CLDR files nothing under the word. ❄️🛖, Snowflake then Hut, is the nearest pair.

Is there an igloo emoticon?

Typed ones. (_n_) is the igloo alone, (_(^_^)_) has a face looking out and (_n_)== adds the entrance tunnel. All three are plain ASCII.

What does the word igloo mean?

Wiktionary traces it to Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ, iglu: a house or building of any kind. By Wikipedia the word covers a home of any material in the Inuit languages, and the snow house has a name of its own, igluvijaq.

What is the hut emoji?

🛖 is named hut, U+1F6D6, from Emoji 13.0. CLDR files it under home, house, hut, roundhouse, shelter and yurt, and it is the only emoji under the last four.

All 53 items

Closest emoji 18

  • Brick U+1F9F1. The only emoji filed under brick. Emoji 11.0.
  • Cloud with snow U+1F328 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and cold. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cold face U+1F976. Filed under cold and freezing. Emoji 11.0.
  • Fishing pole U+1F3A3. Filed under fishing. Emoji 0.6.
  • Hut U+1F6D6. The only emoji filed under hut, shelter and roundhouse. Emoji 13.0.
  • Ice U+1F9CA. The only emoji filed under cube and iceberg. Emoji 12.0.
  • Ice hut Ice, then hut.
  • Igloo Snowflake, then hut.
  • Milky way U+1F30C. Filed under space. Emoji 0.6.
  • Penguin U+1F427. The only emoji filed under antarctica: the other pole. Emoji 0.6.
  • Polar bear U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under arctic. Emoji 13.0.
  • Seal U+1F9AD. Filed under seal and sea. Emoji 13.0.
  • Shovel U+1FA8F. Filed under snow and dig. Emoji 16.0.
  • Sled U+1F6F7. Filed under sledge and toboggan. Emoji 5.0.
  • Snow-capped mountain U+1F3D4 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and mountain. Emoji 0.7.
  • Snowflake U+2744 U+FE0F. One of ten emoji filed under snow. Emoji 0.6.
  • Snowman without snow U+26C4. Filed under snow and snowman. Emoji 0.6.
  • Tent U+26FA. Another shelter. Filed under camping. Emoji 0.6.
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Igloo symbols 6

  • Armenian capital letter vo U+0548. A letter of the Armenian alphabet, with the same doorway.
  • House, as a Han character U+5C4B. House, room or shelter, by the Unihan database.
  • Intersection U+2229. A maths sign: a dome that is all doorway.
  • Segment U+2313. A dome on a flat floor. A technical sign, one plain character.
  • Snowflake, as a plain character U+2744. The snowflake with no emoji selector after it.
  • Upper half circle U+25E0. The dome with no floor.

Igloo emoticons 8

  • (_(^_^)_) A face looking out of the dome.
  • ᐃᒡᓗ Iglu in Inuktitut syllabics: a house or building of any kind, by Wiktionary.
  • 冰屋 Bīngwū, an igloo in Mandarin, by Wiktionary: ice, house.
  • (_n_) A dome and a door, in five plain characters.
  • (_n_) (_n_) (_n_) Three in a row: igluit, the plural in the Inuit languages, by Wikipedia.
  • * . (_n_) . * With snow coming down.
  • (_n_)== With an entrance tunnel.
  • _(_n_)_ The same igloo on level snow.

Igloo drawings 3

  • Igloo at night, drawn Six lines: stars, a moon and the igloo under them.
  • Igloo with an entrance tunnel, drawn Six lines: the dome, and a short tunnel with its own door.
  • Small igloo, drawn Four lines of snow blocks with a doorway. Needs monospaced text.

Igloo lines 6

  • built an igloo. moving in For a snow day photo.
  • gone to the igloo, back in spring For an out of office line.
  • igloo status: walls up, roof pending For a build in progress.
  • it is warmer inside than it looks For a photo from indoors.
  • no signal in the igloo. leave a message For a quiet weekend.
  • snow day project: one igloo, slightly lopsided For the finished thing.

Igloo combos 12

  • Cocoa in the igloo Snowflake, then hut, then hot beverage.
  • Digging in Shovel, then snowflake, then hut.
  • Dog igloo Dog, then snowflake, then hut.
  • Ice window Hut, then ice, then sun.
  • Igloo hotel Snowflake, then hut, then bed.
  • Igloo in a snowstorm Cloud with snow, then snowflake, then hut.
  • Igluit Snowflake, then hut, three times.
  • Night at the igloo Milky way, then snowflake, then hut.
  • Penguin, wrong pole Penguin, then red question mark, then hut.
  • Polar bear at the door Polar bear, then snowflake, then hut.
  • Sled home Sled, then snowflake, then hut.
  • Snow blocks Snowflake, then brick, then hut.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Unicode has no emoji named igloo: no emoji name, no CLDR search word and no character name in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), holds igloo, iglu, snow house or snow hut. CLDR files hut, shelter, roundhouse and yurt under one emoji, Hut (U+1F6D6, Emoji 13.0); snow under ten emoji; cube and iceberg under Ice alone; arctic under Polar bear alone and antarctica under Penguin alone. The three syllabics of the Inuktitut word are U+1403, U+14A1 and U+14D7, read against UnicodeData.txt and Unicode’s names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The meanings of the Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). That an igloo is also called a snow hut or snow house and is a shelter built of snow, that it was traditionally used in Canada’s Central Arctic and part of Greenland, that a single block of clear ice is sometimes set in to let in light, that a short tunnel is sometimes built at the entrance, and that in the Inuit languages iglu (plural igluit) is a house of any material while the snow house is igluvijaq, is from Wikipedia, Igloo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo, CC BY-SA 4.0). That the English word comes from Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ, a house or building of any kind, and that iglu is an archaic English form of igloo, is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/igloo and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iglu, CC BY-SA 4.0); the Mandarin word 冰屋 (bīngwū), an igloo, is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/冰屋). The typed lines, the drawings, the caption lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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