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A snowflake with a drop beneath it, or a snowflake being melted.
Also known as: Snowflake with a drop, Defrost setting, Melting snowflake symbol
A snowflake with water falling from it. The snowflake is what is being removed rather than what is being made, which is the opposite of what the same glyph means on a freezer control and is a genuine source of confusion.
A snowflake with one or two droplets falling beneath it, marking a defrost function on a refrigerator, freezer, microwave or oven.
What a given programme actually does is in the appliance's own instructions. The symbol names the function; the manufacturer decides how it behaves.
Contexts: Electrical equipment
The snowflake here is the thing being removed. A plain snowflake on a freezer control means the opposite — make it colder — so the droplet is not decoration but the whole of the difference.
Snowflake alone means freeze; snowflake with a drop means thaw. One character apart.
A six-armed snowflake with short branching arms, with one or two tapered droplet shapes falling from below it.