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☃
Snowman
U+2603 · decimal 9731 · Miscellaneous Symbols
Every way to write it
6 formsHTML entity
☃
This character has no named entity, so the numeric form is the one to use.
CSS content
\2603
For a content property in a ::before or ::after rule. No semicolon, and mind the trailing space.
JavaScript
\u2603
Valid in a JavaScript or JSON string literal, so it survives files and pipelines that are not UTF-8 clean.
Python
\u2603
The escape for a Python string literal.
URL
%E2%98%83
Percent-encoded UTF-8, for a query string or a path segment.
UTF-8 bytes
E2 98 83
3 bytes on the wire. Seeing these as separate garbled characters means something decoded them as single-byte text.
Typing it without copying
system pickermacOS
Control + Command + Space, then search snowman
Windows
Character Map or Alt + 9731
Groups it belongs to
Characters near it
8Code pointU+2603
EntityNumeric
UTF-83 bytes
ASCIINo