Polar bear emoji 🐻❄️
Emoji 13.0 (2020) · U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F
What 🐻❄️ means
Polar bear 🐻❄️ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, arctic, bear, polar, white.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or arctic on your phone to find 🐻❄️.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐻❄️ sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐨 🐼 🦥 🦦.
Will 🐻❄️ show on my friend's phone?
🐻❄️ dates from Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
What 🐻❄️ is made of
🐻❄️ is a sequence of 2 emoji: 🐻 bear + ❄️ snowflake, glued together with the invisible zero width joiner (U+200D). A phone that does not know the combination shows the parts side by side.
How to type 🐻❄️
To find 🐻❄️ quickly, type polar bear into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type polar bear.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type polar bear in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type polar bear.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐻❄️ as 4 code points, U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F: 13 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 5 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐻‍❄️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐻‍❄️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F43B \200D \2744 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F43B}\u200D\u2744\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%BB%E2%80%8D%E2%9D%84%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 BB E2 80 8D E2 9D 84 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐻❄️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | polar bear |
| Português | urso polar |
| Español | oso polar |
| Italiano | orso polare |
| Français | ours polaire |
| Deutsch | Eisbär |
| Türkçe | kutup ayısı |
| Bahasa Indonesia | beruang kutub |
| Polski | niedźwiedź polarny |
| Русский | морда белого медведя |
| 日本語 | シロクマ |
| 한국어 | 북극곰 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the polar bear emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐻❄️ "polar bear" and links it with animal, arctic, bear, polar. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the polar bear emoji added?
In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 show it.
Why does 🐻❄️ sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of 🐻 ❄️ joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.