Santa Claus
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- Shortcode
:santa:- Shortcode
:santa_claus:- Unicode
U+1F385- HTML
🎅- CSS
\1F385- JavaScript
"\u{1F385}"- URL
%F0%9F%8E%85
What ๐ means
Santa Claus in his red suit and white beard, standing for Christmas, gifts and the holiday season.
People send it in Christmas greetings, gift lists and Secret Santa plans, with ๐ ๐ and โ๏ธ. Parents use it to remind kids that Santa is watching. Someone who gives generous gifts all year gets called a Santa too.
Facts
Santa Claus ๐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person fantasy. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :santa: or :santa_claus:. People also look for it with words like โChristmasโ, โcelebrationโ, โclausโ, or โfairyโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.