Santa Claus emoji ๐
Emoji 0.6 (2010) ยท U+1F385
Skin tones ยท Tap a tone to copy it.
What ๐ means
Santa Claus ๐ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: celebration, Christmas, claus, fairy, fantasy, father, holiday, merry, santa, tale.
Those words also drive emoji search: try celebration or Christmas on your phone to find ๐ .
On the emoji keyboard, ๐ sits with the fantasy characters (33 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example ๐คถ ๐งโ๐ ๐ฆธ ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ.
You can send ๐ in 5 skin tones (๐ ๐ป to ๐ ๐ฟ) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will ๐ show on my friend's phone?
๐ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ๐
To find ๐ quickly, type santa Claus into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type santa Claus.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type santa Claus in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type santa Claus.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ๐ as one code point, U+1F385: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F385 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🎅 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🎅 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F385"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F385} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%8E%85 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 85 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | Santa Claus |
| Portuguรชs | Papai Noel |
| Espaรฑol | Papรก Noel |
| Italiano | Babbo Natale |
| Franรงais | pรจre Noรซl |
| Deutsch | Weihnachtsmann |
| Tรผrkรงe | Noel Baba |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Sinterklas |
| Polski | ลwiฤty Mikoลaj |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ะกะฐะฝัะฐ-ะะปะฐัั |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ใตใณใฟ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ์ฐํํด๋ก์ค |
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All people & body emoji โQuestions people ask
What does the santa Claus emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐ "Santa Claus" and links it with celebration, Christmas, claus, fairy. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body.
When was the santa Claus emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
Can I change the skin tone of ๐ ?
Yes. ๐ has these skin tones: ๐ ๐ป ๐ ๐ผ ๐ ๐ฝ ๐ ๐พ ๐ ๐ฟ. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.