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🐻❄️Polar Bear Emoji
Tagged animal, arctic and bear, 🐻❄️ polar bear sits in Unicode's Mammals group inside Animals & Nature. It was introduced in Emoji 13.0 (2020) at U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F.
What 🐻❄️ polar bear means
Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
Unicode tags this one animal, arctic and bear and files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🐻❄️ is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐻‍❄️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🐻‍❄️ | |
| CSS | \1F43B\200D\2744\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F43B}\u{200D}\u{2744}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F43B\U0000200D\U00002744\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC3B\u200D\u2744\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f43b}\u{200d}\u{2744}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F43B}\u{200D}\u{2744}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F43B}\u{200D}\u{2744}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %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 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC3B 200D 2744 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Qu+KAjeKdhO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128059 8205 10052 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.0 (2020) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🐻❄️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “polar bear”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f43band Enter. - HTML — paste
🐻‍❄️.
How 🐻❄️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐻❄️Apple
- 🐻❄️Segoe
- 🐻❄️Noto
- 🐻❄️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐻❄️ polar bear emoji mean?+
🐻❄️ is the polar bear emoji, tagged animal, arctic and bear. Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🐻❄️?+
polar bear is U+1F43B U+200D U+2744 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🐻‍❄️, in CSS \1F43B\200D\2744\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F43B}\u{200D}\u{2744}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐻❄️ emoji added?+
polar bear got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Mammals in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 13.0 (2020)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐻❄️ polar bear.