Snowflake
Part of Stars & Dingbats
Snowflake has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ❄
- Unicode
- U+2744
About this symbol
Snowflakes have six arms because of the way water molecules lock together as they freeze. Johannes Kepler wondered why in a short book in 1611, On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, and in 1885 the American farmer Wilson Bentley became the first person to photograph a single snow crystal.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- SNOWFLAKE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Dingbats
- Unicode group
- Stars, asterisks and snowflakes
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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