Unicode has two snowman emoji and the difference is the weather. Snowman comes with snow. Snowman without snow is the same figure on a dry day. Then 61 more: a kit, the thaw, plain-text snowmen and ASCII art. Snowman emoji copy and paste, carrot included.
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Two snowmen, one forecast
All three of Unicode's snowmen are weather signs. Its notes gloss Snowman as snowy weather and Snowman without snow as light snow. Black snowman, U+26C7, means heavy snow and never became an emoji: an empty box where no font has it. All three snowmen, in forecast order pastes the set.
Building one from parts
Wikipedia's Snowman article gives the recipe: three snowballs in North America, two in the United Kingdom, sticks for arms, stones or coal for eyes, a carrot for the nose. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, has nothing under coal or twig, so Rock and Wood stand in. Some assembly required pastes the parts, then the result.
Tips
Both snowman emoji have a text form: Text style turns each into a plain character the colour of your words. Some apps ignore it.
Coal finds Rock and Black circle; arms finds Wood and Leafless tree. That tree and Shovel are Emoji 16.0, an empty box on older phones.
The six ASCII snowmen need a monospaced font to stay upright. Snowman, after the sun is a hat, two eyes, a nose and a puddle.
Questions and answers
What is the difference between the two snowman emoji?
Snow. Snowman is U+2603 followed by U+FE0F, Emoji 0.7. Snowman without snow is U+26C4, Emoji 0.6. CLDR gives both the same four search words: cold, man, snow, snowman. Search finds both and the forecast decides. Both snowmen pastes the pair.
Is there a snowwoman emoji?
No. Wikipedia says a snow sculpture of a woman is called a snowwoman, but no emoji name and no CLDR search word holds that word. None of Unicode's three snowmen says who the snowman is. The scarf and the hat are yours to hand out.
How do I paste a snowman where emoji are not allowed?
Use Snowman, no emoji selector: U+2603 on its own, an ordinary character. Snowflake, no emoji selector and the two dingbat snowflakes work the same way. Where those fail too, the ASCII snowmen are keyboard characters and nothing else. One-line ASCII art has more.
☃️SnowmanU+2603 U+FE0F. By its name, the one with snow. Unicode's notes gloss it as snowy weather: it began as a sign on a weather chart. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
⛄Snowman without snowU+26C4. The same figure with the weather taken away. Unicode's notes gloss it as light snow, which is a bold reading of without snow. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
Building kit: nose, eyes, hat and arms 11
⚫Black circleU+26AB. A button, or a lump of coal seen from across the garden. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
🧹BroomU+1F9F9. CLDR files it under sweeping and witch and says nothing about snowmen. Tucking one under his arm is our idea, not Unicode's. Emoji 11.0.
🥕CarrotU+1F955. The nose. Wikipedia's Snowman article gives a carrot for the nose and stones or coal for the eyes. Three search words: carrot, food, vegetable. Emoji 3.0.
🧥CoatU+1F9E5. CLDR files it under brr. Also for the builder. Emoji 5.0.
🧤GlovesU+1F9E4. Two search words: gloves, hand. For the builder. The snowman has sticks. Emoji 5.0.
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Building kit: nose, eyes, hat and arms, continued
Leafless treeU+1FABE. The only emoji CLDR files under winter. It also answers to branches, which is where arms come from. One of the two newest emoji here. Emoji 16.0.
🪨RockU+1FAA8. The eyes. CLDR lists nothing under coal, so this is the nearest: it files the rock under stone and boulder. Search coal and it answers. Emoji 13.0.
🧣ScarfU+1F9E3. CLDR files it under cold and neck. A snowman has no neck to speak of and gets one anyway. Emoji 5.0.
ShovelU+1FA8F. One of the ten emoji CLDR files under snow, along with dig and scoop. As new as the leafless tree, so an older phone shows an empty box. Emoji 16.0.
🎩Top hatU+1F3A9. The article lists a top hat among the usual clothes. CLDR files it under formal and fancy, so the snowman is overdressed. Emoji 0.6.
🪵WoodU+1FAB5. The article says sticks can be used for arms. CLDR lists nothing under twig, and stick finds two kinds of hockey, so the arms arrive as a log. Emoji 13.0.
Snow, and what else it is for 9
🌨️Cloud with snowU+1F328 U+FE0F. Unicode's notes gloss it as snow, snow showers. Supply, in other words. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
🥶Cold faceU+1F976. CLDR files it under frostbite, icicles and subzero. For whoever built the snowman without gloves. Emoji 11.0.
🧊IceU+1F9CA. CLDR files it under cube and iceberg, which covers the range. Emoji 12.0.
⛷️SkierU+26F7 U+FE0F. Unicode's notes gloss it as ski resort: another map sign that became an emoji. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
🎿SkisU+1F3BF. Four search words: ski, skis, snow, sport. Emoji 0.6.
🛷SledU+1F6F7. Unicode's notes call it sledge, toboggan. CLDR adds luge and sleigh. Emoji 5.0.
🏔️Snow-capped mountainU+1F3D4 U+FE0F. Where the snow stays when the garden has given up. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
🏂SnowboarderU+1F3C2. The only one of the ten snow emoji that takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
❄️SnowflakeU+2744 U+FE0F. The raw material. CLDR files ten emoji under snow and all ten are on this page. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
The thaw 5
💧DropletU+1F4A7. Unicode's notes say it represents a drop of sweat or drop of water. CLDR files it under cold, which is no longer true of the snowman. Emoji 0.6.
🫠Melting faceU+1FAE0. The only emoji with melt in a name or a search word. It is a face and not a snowman, though the snowman catches up. Emoji 14.0.
☀️SunU+2600 U+FE0F. Unicode's notes gloss it as clear weather. For a snowman that is the bad forecast. It has a text form. Emoji 0.6.
🌞Sun with faceU+1F31E. CLDR files it under heat and sunshine. It is smiling about it. Emoji 1.0.
🌡️ThermometerU+1F321 U+FE0F. Unicode's notes gloss it as temperature, warm. It has a text form. Emoji 0.7.
Plain text: snowmen, snowflakes and snow 7
⛇Black snowmanU+26C7 Black snowman. The third snowman, and not an emoji. Unicode's notes gloss it as heavy snow and head its row Weather symbols from ARIB STD B24. It shows as an empty box where no font has it.
❆Heavy chevron snowflakeU+2746 Heavy chevron snowflake. The third and last character with snowflake in its name. Also plain text.
雪Snow, as a Han characterU+96EA. Unihan defines it as snow; wipe away shame, avenge. The second half is not the snowman's department.
❄Snowflake, no emoji selectorU+2744 Snowflake. The snowflake as a dingbat, which is what it was before it was an emoji. It takes the colour of your words where an app allows it.
☃Snowman, no emoji selectorU+2603 Snowman. U+2603 on its own, with no U+FE0F after it to ask for a picture. Some apps supply the picture regardless.
❅Tight trifoliate snowflakeU+2745 Tight trifoliate snowflake. Never an emoji, so it stays the colour and size of your text.
冬Winter, as a Han characterU+51AC. Unihan defines it as winter, 11th lunar month.
Snowman lines 14
[_](':')( : )( : )ASCII snowman, lying down to fit on one line
☃️❄️☃️❄️☃️❄️☃️Border row, snowmen and snowflakes
⛄ ☃ ⛇All three snowmen, in forecast order
❆ ☃ ❆ ☃ ❆No emoji: a divider of snowflakes and snowmen
⛄ Built him myself ⛄Credit where due
⛄ Carrot wanted. Apply within 🥕Situations vacant
❄️ Do not leave me near a radiator ☃️Care instructions
🥕 Has anyone seen my nose ⛄Lost property
⛄ Out of office until the thaw 💧Auto-reply
☃ Snow day ☃No emoji selector: the bare snowman each side
☃️ Snow day ☃️A snowman at each end
☃️ Snowman season is open ❄️An announcement
☃️ Too cold to go out. Sent him instead ☃️A stand-in for you
☀️ Well, this is awkward ⛄The forecast has changed
ASCII snowmen 6
Pocket snowmanFour rows, for a chat that scrolls fast. Plain ASCII, 7 columns wide.
Snowman in three snowballsHead, torso and lower body, the North American build by the Snowman article's account, with stick arms and a hat. Plain ASCII, 14 columns wide.
Snowman in two snowballsOne ball for the body and one for the head, which the article gives as the United Kingdom's way, plus a scarf. Plain ASCII, 12 columns wide.
Snowman with a broomThe broom is taller than he is. Plain ASCII, 15 columns wide.
Snowman with snowThe ASCII answer to U+2603: the figure, and weather round it. Plain ASCII, 21 columns wide.
Snowman, after the sunA hat, two eyes, a nose and a puddle. Everything else has gone. Plain ASCII, 16 columns wide.
Snowman combos 9
☃️⛄Both snowmenSnowman, then snowman without snow. The only two emoji with snowman in the name, side by side.
🌲⛄🌲In the gardenEvergreen tree, then snowman without snow, then evergreen tree. A tree on each side, for scale.
🌨️☃️🛷Snow dayCloud with snow, then snowman, then sled. The snow, the snowman and the way downhill.
❄️🥕🪨🎩🧣⛄Some assembly requiredSnowflake, then carrot, then rock, then top hat, then scarf, then snowman without snow. The parts in order, then the result.
⛄🥕🐇The suspectSnowman without snow, then carrot, then rabbit. It ends the way you think.
☃️☀️💧The thawSnowman, then sun, then droplet. Three steps. Nobody enjoys the third.
⛄🌞🫠💧🥕The thaw, full versionSnowman without snow, then sun with face, then melting face, then droplet, then carrot. Ends with a carrot on a lawn.
⛄⛄⛄Three in a rowSnowman without snow 3 times. A small crowd, all holding still.
⛄🌨️☃️Weather moving inSnowman without snow, then cloud with snow, then snowman. Unicode keeps one snowman for each forecast. This is both, with the cloud that makes the difference.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, 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, in sentence case. The 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, main branch). Two emoji have snowman in a name or a CLDR search word (snowman, snowman without snow) and they share four search words: cold, man, snow, snowman. CLDR lists snow for ten emoji, all on this page, winter for the leafless tree alone and melt for the melting face alone; it lists nothing for coal, twig, snowball, mitten, frost, thaw or puddle. The first group is the two snowman emoji; the building kit and the thaw are our own picks. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. Notes about what a character is used for come from the annotations in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). Three characters have SNOWMAN in the name (U+2603, U+26C4, U+26C7) and NamesList.txt glosses them as snowy weather, light snow and heavy snow; U+26C7 Black snowman and the two dingbat snowflakes U+2745 and U+2746 are not in emoji-test.txt. Meanings of Chinese characters come from the kDefinition field of Unihan_Readings.txt in Unihan.zip, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). What the page says about how a snowman is built (three snowballs in North America, two in the United Kingdom, sticks for arms, stones or coal for eyes, a carrot for a nose, a scarf or a top hat) is from the English Wikipedia article Snowman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowman), read on 2026-09-19. The 14 lines, 6 ASCII snowmen and 9 combos are this site's own work: the emoji in them are fetched by name from emoji-test.txt, the plain characters by name from UnicodeData.txt, and the drawings were made for this page. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work