U+2744 Snowflake
U+2744 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+2744 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “snowflake” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: cold, snow.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, which falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a tiny particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual snowflakes differ in detail from one another, but may be categorized in eight broad classifications and at least 80 individual variants. The main constituent shapes for ice crystals, from which combinations may occur, are needle, column, plate, and rime. Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is due to diffuse reflection of the whole spectrum of light by the small crystal facets of the snowflakes.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 10052 |
UTF-8 | E2 9D 84 |
UTF-16 | 27 44 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 27 44 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%9D%84 |
HTML hex reference | ❄ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â„ |
LATEX | \ding{100} |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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