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Translingual edit
Description edit
Depiction of Father Christmas or Santa Claus: an elderly bearded man wearing a red and white bobble hat (Santa hat).
Etymology edit
First introduced as an emoji by the Japanese phone carrier SoftBank in January 2000, and standardised in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.
Symbol edit
๐
- (Internet slang, text messaging, metonymically) Synonym of ๐ (โChristmas or (more generally) the Christmas season; Christmastide; winter; the holidaysโ).
Usage notes edit
- The design of this emoji varies by operating system and platform.
- Using this emoji with skin type modifiers ๐ป, ๐ผ, ๐ฝ, ๐พ, ๐ฟ will result in the following:
| โ | 1-2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ | ๐ ๐ป | ๐ ๐ผ | ๐ ๐ฝ | ๐ ๐พ | ๐ ๐ฟ |