A person downhill-skiiing. Displayed with poles and <a href="/skis/" title="🎿 Ski and Ski Boot">skis</a>, generally wearing a mask.

Platforms vary in display of scarf, helmet, and color of clothing. No gendered options are provided for this emoji. Skin tones support is not recommended&nbsp;for this emoji, but this is supported by some platforms.

Skier

A mountain with snow resting at higher altitudes. Similar in appearance to the <a href="/mount-fuji/" title="🗻 Mount Fuji">Mount Fuji</a> emoji.

Snow Capped Mountain

A sled, otherwise known as a toboggan or sledge.

Sled

A curling stone used in the sport of curling. Generally depicted with a red handle, though <a href="/whatsapp/2.24.2.76/curling-stone">WhatsApp&#39;s design</a> features a blue handle.

Curling Stone

A snow cloud. Depicted as blue <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling from a white cloud.

May be used as a weather icon to represent snow showers or a snowy day.

Not to be confused with <a href="/cloud-with-rain/">🌧️ Cloud With Rain</a>.

Cloud with Snow

The unique, feathery ice crystal of a snowflake. Depicted as a bluish-white snowflake with six&nbsp;intricate&nbsp;symmetrical branches.

Like <a href="/cloud-with-snow/">🌨️ Cloud With Snow</a>, may be used as a weather icon to represent a snowstorm or a cold, snowy day. May also be used for various content concerning wintertime, <a href="/snow-capped-mountain/">cold climates</a>, and winter activity, such as <a href="/skis/">skiing</a>.

Sometimes used as an insult to call a person&nbsp;weak and&nbsp;oversensitive.

Snowflake

A classic snowman, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman">Frosty the Snowman</a>, with <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling on it.&nbsp;Depicted as a snowman, facing forward, made from two or three large snowballs and stick arms, dressed with a <a href="/top-hat/">top hat</a>, a <a href="/carrot/">carrot</a> nose, coal eyes, and two or three buttons on its torso. Sometimes shown with a smile and a red <a href="/scarf/">scarf</a>.

Often used for various content concerning <a href="/winter/" title="⛄ Winter">winter</a> fun and <a href="/christmas/">Christmastime</a>.

Vendors implement the same figure for their <a href="/snowman-without-snow/" title=" ⛄ Snowman Without Snow">⛄ Snowman Without Snow</a>, which does not have snowflakes.

Google&rsquo;s snowman previously&nbsp;wore&nbsp;green <a href="/gloves/">gloves</a>, while&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/snowman/">Samsung&#39;s</a>&nbsp;design previously lacked a hat.

This snowman predates Unicode emoji support, which explains why it may display as the&nbsp;black-and-white <a href="/glossary/#white">outline</a> of a snowman.

Snowman

A classic snowman, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman">Frosty the Snowman</a>.&nbsp;Depicted as a snowman, facing forward, made from two or three large snowballs and stick arms, dressed with a <a href="/top-hat/">top hat</a>, a <a href="/carrot/">carrot</a> nose, coal eyes, and two or three buttons on its torso. Sometimes shown with a smile and a red <a href="/scarf/">scarf</a>.

Often used for various content concerning <a href="/winter/" title="⛄ Winter">winter</a> fun and Christmastime.

Vendors implement the same figure for their <a href="/snowman/">☃️ Snowman</a>, but which has <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling on it.

Google&rsquo;s snowman is wearing green <a href="/gloves/">gloves</a>,&nbsp;though its snowman <a href="/google/android-7.0/snowman-without-snow/">previously</a> lacked any attire. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/snowman-without-snow/">Samsung&#39;s</a> previously lacked a hat.

Snowman Without Snow

A single ice skate used for ice skating. Shown in white and&nbsp;facing&nbsp;right&nbsp;on most platforms.

In the sport of figure skating, a white ice skate is traditionally worn by women, and a black ice skate worn by men. This emoji doesn&#39;t define the color to be used, but no major vendor currently displays this as black.

Ice Skate

A knitted wool scarf, generally worn for warmth. Colored red across most emoji design vendors.

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Scarf

A pair of knitted wool gloves, generally worn for warmth. The colors vary across different vendors.

Gloves

A pair of skis which are shown on some platforms alongside ski poles and/or ski boots. The color and design of the skis varies by platform, with some versions also showing the skis moving at speed.

Distinct from the <a href="/skier/">skier emoji</a> which features a person skiing.

Ski and Ski Boot

A person snowboarding downhill at a ski resort. Wearing clothing designed for cold climates.

Snowboarder

An analog, handheld timepiece used to measure elapsed time, as for athletic sprints.&nbsp;Appearance varies across platforms, but depicted with two or more control buttons on its top.

Used for various content concerning time.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/alarm-clock/">⏰&nbsp;Alarm Clock</a> or other clock emojis.

Stopwatch

The flag for Andorra, which may show as the letters AD on some platforms.

Flag: Andorra

The flag for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;CH&nbsp;on some platforms.

This flag is red, with a white cross in the center. Unlike most global flags, it is square instead of&nbsp;rectangular.

Initially most vendors displayed this flag as a&nbsp;rectangle,&nbsp;consistent with other emoji flags, but today the majority of vendors display the flag with its accurate real-world shape.

Flag: Switzerland

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Skype

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

SerenityOS

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

Noto Emoji Font

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

A licensable emoji design set.

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Unicode 5.2&nbsp;pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by one&nbsp;year, and included many characters primarily sourced from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07391-n3341.pdf">ARIB set of Japanese broadcasting symbols</a>.

The following characters were among those added to Unicode in 2009, several of which were given&nbsp;emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

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