Santa Claus
🎅 is the santa claus emoji, part of Unicode's People & Body group, added in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Unicode's keyword list links it with “celebration”, “Christmas”, “fairy”, and “fantasy”.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Where person-fantasy emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Fiction, gaming, and fantasy-themed posts
- Costume, roleplay, and seasonal content
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- FATHER CHRISTMAS
- CLDR short name
- Santa Claus
- Codepoint
- U+1F385
- Hex
- 1F385
- Emoji version
- 0.6
- Unicode version
- 6.0
- First released
- 2010
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person-fantasy
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:santa:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRcelebration · Christmas · claus · fairy · fantasy · father · holiday · merry · santa · tale · xmas
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🎅. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the 🎅 santa claus emoji mean?
- 🎅 is the santa claus emoji, part of Unicode's People & Body group, added in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Unicode's keyword list links it with “celebration”, “Christmas”, “fairy”, and “fantasy”.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🎅?
- U+1F385, named FATHER CHRISTMAS in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the 🎅 santa claus emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 0.6, published in 2010, alongside Unicode 6.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🎅 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “santa claus”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🎅 from this page with one click.
- Does 🎅 come in different skin tones?
- Yes. There are 5 skin-tone versions: 🎅🏻 🎅🏼 🎅🏽 🎅🏾 🎅🏿. They all mean the same thing; long-press 🎅 on a phone keyboard to pick one.
- What is the shortcode for 🎅?
- On GitHub, type :santa: and it turns into 🎅 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.