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Polar bear emoji 🐻‍❄️

🐻‍❄️ is the polar bear: a white bear face. It means polar bears, the Arctic and cold — winter, snow days, climate change posts, “cold as a polar bear” — and is a cute…

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What the polar bear 🐻‍❄️ emoji means

🐻‍❄️ is the polar bear: a white bear face. It means polar bears, the Arctic and cold — winter, snow days, climate change posts, “cold as a polar bear” — and is a cute alternative to 🐻 for white or winter aesthetics. It is a sequence of 🐻 bear and ❄️ snowflake joined by a zero-width joiner, added in Emoji 13.0 (2020); older phones show 🐻❄️ side by side. Cold set: 🧊 ice, ❄️ snowflake, 🐧 penguin, 🦭 seal; the brown original 🐻 bear.

Unicode name: polar bear · U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F · Emoji 13.0 (2020) · group: Animals & Nature.

IN A MESSAGE-8 this morning 🐻‍❄️ full polar bear mode

How people use it

  • Cold and winter: snow days, freezing
  • Arctic wildlife: nature posts
  • Climate change: melting ice
  • White aesthetic: cute winter captions

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
polar bearU+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0FWhite bear
bearU+1F43BBrown bear
iceU+1F9CAIce cube
snowflakeU+2744 U+FE0FSnow
penguinU+1F427Penguin

Questions people ask

Why does 🐻‍❄️ show as a bear and a snowflake?

It is a joined sequence; phones older than 2020 cannot combine it.

What does 🐻‍❄️ mean?

A polar bear — cold, the Arctic, winter.

When was 🐻‍❄️ added?

2020, Emoji 13.0.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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