For a snow globe emoji, start with the Crystal ball, U+1F52E, the nearest shape. Under it are globes built with a scene inside, shake-it combos, plain-text globes, four drawings and lines for winter posts.
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What Unicode has instead
Four emoji have globe in their names, and all four are the earth: three show a part of the world and one has meridians. CLDR, the list of search words behind emoji keyboards, files snow under ten emoji, the Snowflake and both snowmen among them, and nothing under snow globe. Crystal is the Crystal ball alone.
Why one globe holds an umbrella
One built globe, 🔮☂️❄️, copies the earliest scene in Wikipedia's article, which dates the snow globe to at least 1878, when paperweights shown in Paris held water, white powder and a man with an umbrella.
Snowglobe, one word, is the US spelling Wiktionary lists.
Questions and answers
Is there a snow globe emoji?
Unicode's emoji list, version 18.0, names no emoji snow globe. This page leads with 🔮 Crystal ball and puts ❄️ Snowflake beside it.
How do you make a snow globe with emoji?
Ball first, scene second, snowflake last. 🔮🎄❄️ is a snow globe with a tree inside, 🔮☃️❄️ one with a snowman and 🔮🏠❄️ one with a house. The built globes are this page's own combos.
How do you make a snow globe without emoji?
With a one-line globe such as ( * . * ), or one of the four drawings. Seven of the one-line globes and all four drawings are keyboard characters only, and the pocket drawing is five rows tall.
What else is a snow globe called?
Waterglobe, snowstorm or snowdome, Wikipedia records. It describes a transparent sphere, traditionally glass, around a miniature scene, shaken to churn up white particles that fall slowly through the water.
All 63 items
Closest emoji 8
🫧BubblesU+1FAE7. The only emoji filed under floating. Also filed under underwater. Emoji 14.0.
🌨️Cloud with snowU+1F328 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and weather. Emoji 0.7.
🔮Crystal ballU+1F52E. This page's lead: the nearest shape. The only emoji filed under crystal. Emoji 0.6.
🌐Globe with meridiansU+1F310. One of the four emoji named globe. All four show the earth. Emoji 1.0.
🎶Musical notesU+1F3B6. For the kind with a music box. Filed under music. Emoji 0.6.
🫨Shaking faceU+1FAE8. The only emoji filed under vibrate. Also filed under shaking. Emoji 15.0.
❄️SnowflakeU+2744 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and cold. Emoji 0.6.
✨SparklesU+2728. Filed under sparkle and magic. Emoji 0.6.
Snow globes with a scene inside 12
🔮☂️❄️The 1878 globeCrystal ball, then umbrella, then snowflake. The globes shown in Paris in 1878 held a man with an umbrella.
🔮🏰❄️Castle globeCrystal ball, then castle, then snowflake.
🔮🦌❄️Deer in the globeCrystal ball, then deer, then snowflake.
🔮🏠❄️House in the snowCrystal ball, then house, then snowflake.
🔮🏔️❄️Mountain globeCrystal ball, then snow-capped mountain, then snowflake.
🔮🐧❄️Penguin globeCrystal ball, then penguin, then snowflake.
🔮🌲❄️Pine forest globeCrystal ball, then evergreen tree, then snowflake.
🔮🐻❄️❄️Polar bear globeCrystal ball, then polar bear, then snowflake.
🔮🎄❄️Snow globe with a tree insideCrystal ball, then Christmas tree, then snowflake.
🔮☃️❄️Snowman globeCrystal ball, then snowman, then snowflake.
🔮🏙️❄️Souvenir city globeCrystal ball, then cityscape, then snowflake.
🔮🏘️❄️Village globeCrystal ball, then houses, then snowflake.
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Shake-it combos 9
🌀🔮❄️Blizzard in a ballCyclone, then crystal ball, then snowflake.
🎁🔮❄️Gift-wrapped globeWrapped gift, then crystal ball, then snowflake.
✨🔮❄️Glitter globeSparkles, then crystal ball, then snowflake.
🎄🔮🎁Globe by the treeChristmas tree, then crystal ball, then wrapped gift.
🔮❄️❄️❄️Just shakenCrystal ball, then snowflake, three times.
🔮🎶❄️Musical globeCrystal ball, then musical notes, then snowflake.
🫨🔮❄️Shake itShaking face, then crystal ball, then snowflake.
🔮🌨️Snow falling insideCrystal ball, then cloud with snow.
❄️🔮❄️Snow globe, flakes both sidesSnowflake, then crystal ball, then snowflake.
Tiny scenes to put inside 12
🏰CastleU+1F3F0. Filed under castle and building. Emoji 0.6.
🎄Christmas treeU+1F384. Filed under tree and celebration. Emoji 0.6.
🏙️CityscapeU+1F3D9 U+FE0F. Filed under city. Emoji 0.7.
🦌DeerU+1F98C. The only emoji filed under deer. Emoji 3.0.
🌲Evergreen treeU+1F332. Filed under pine and forest. Emoji 1.0.
🏠HouseU+1F3E0. Filed under home and house. Emoji 0.6.
🏘️HousesU+1F3D8 U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under houses. Emoji 0.7.
🐧PenguinU+1F427. The only emoji filed under antarctica. Emoji 0.6.
🐻❄️Polar bearU+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under arctic. Emoji 13.0.
🏔️Snow-capped mountainU+1F3D4 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and mountain. Emoji 0.7.
☃️SnowmanU+2603 U+FE0F. Filed under snow and cold. Emoji 0.7.
⛄Snowman without snowU+26C4. The second emoji named snowman. Emoji 0.6.
Snow globes in plain text 9
( * . * )Flakes in a globe
( * /|\ * )A tree inside
( . * [] * . )A house inside
( ..... )Settled: every flake on the floor
( ❅ ❆ ❅ )Three snowflakes, in plain symbols
(❄ ☃ ❄)A snowman between two snowflakes, in plain symbols
_( * . * )_The same, on a base
~( * . * )~Mid-shake
( * 8 * )A snowman inside
Snow globe drawings 4
Pocket snow globeFive rows and 9 columns, with a tree inside.
Snow globe with a houseA house with one window, on a base, 17 columns wide.
Snow globe with a snowmanA snowman in a hat, on a base, 17 columns wide.
Snow globe, just shakenFlakes from wall to wall and no scene, 17 columns wide.
Snow globe lines 9
Do not shake. Snowman asleep ☃️A notice
Living in a snow globe today ❄️For a snow day
My whole street, in a snow globe 🏠For a photo from the window
Shake for snow 🫨An instruction
🔮 Shake well before winterFor the first cold morning
Snow globe weather 🌨️Three words and a cloud
Someone shook the snow globe ❄️❄️❄️For heavy snow
Tiny town, big snow 🏘️For a view from above
Waiting for the flakes to settle ❄️For after the storm
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 names no emoji snow globe: every name in that list and every CLDR search word was searched for snow globe, snowglobe, snowdome, waterglobe and dome, and none was found. Four emoji have globe in their names and all four are filed under earth and world. CLDR files snow under ten emoji and crystal under Crystal ball alone. Each emoji's note says which CLDR words it is filed under; which emoji lead the page is this site's choice. The plain symbols in two of the one-line globes are named in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): Snowflake, Snowman, Tight trifoliate snowflake and Heavy chevron snowflake. What a snow globe is, its other names (waterglobe, snowstorm, snowdome), the music box, and the 1878 report of paperweights holding water, white powder and a man with an umbrella are as Wikipedia's article Snow globe records them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_globe, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated; snowglobe as the US spelling is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snow_globe). The built globes, the combos and their names, the one-line globes, the four drawings and the lines are this site's own work; nobody has standardised them. 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, 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.