Santa Claus emoji
Type :santa: · People & body
Unicode name Santa Claus · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 🎅 means
Father Christmas, and one of the few emoji whose usage collapses to almost nothing for eleven months of the year.
How to type 🎅 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :sant
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🎅 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:santa: Search terms
Also found by searching celebration, christmas, claus, fairy, fantasy, father.
Skin tones for 🎅
Santa Claus comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 🎅 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 🎅🏻 light 🎅🏼 medium-light 🎅🏽 medium 🎅🏾 medium-dark 🎅🏿 dark 🎅 in HTML, CSS and code
Santa Claus is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F385
- HTML
- 🎅
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F385}'
- CSS content
- "\1F385"
- Python
- '\U0001F385'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%8E%85
Related emojis
:mrs_claus: 🧑🎄 :mx_claus: 🤴 :prince: 👸 :princess: 👼 :angel: 🧌 :troll: 🧚♂️ :man_fairy: 🧚♀️ :woman_fairy: 🧚 :fairy: 🙌 :raised_hands: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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