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🎅Santa Claus Emoji
🎅 is the Santa Claus emoji, U+1F385, one of 33 in the Fantasy set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for celebration, christmas and claus.
What 🎅 Santa Claus means
Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
Unicode tags this one celebration, christmas and claus and files it under People & Body → Fantasy.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F385 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎅 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎅 | |
| CSS | \1F385 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F385} | |
| Python | \U0001F385 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDF85 | |
| Rust | \u{1f385} | |
| Swift | \u{1F385} | |
| PHP | \u{1F385} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%85 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E 85 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DF85 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OhQ== | |
| Decimal | 127877 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🎅 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎅
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “Santa Claus”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “celebration”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f385and 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 🎅 Santa Claus emoji mean?+
🎅 is the Santa Claus emoji, tagged celebration, christmas and claus. Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
What is the Unicode code for 🎅?+
Santa Claus is U+1F385. In HTML that is 🎅, in CSS \1F385, and in JavaScript \u{1F385}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎅 emoji added?+
Santa Claus got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Fantasy in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎅 Santa Claus.