🎄

Text style	Emoji style
🎄︎	🎄️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🎄 U+1F384, 🎄 CHRISTMAS TREE ← 🎃 [U+1F383] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🎅 → [U+1F385]

Translingual

Description

Depiction of a Christmas tree: an evergreen (🌲) with brightly-coloured decorations, such as ornaments, lights and the Star of Bethlehem at the top (but see usage notes).

Symbol origin

A black (colourless) pixelated Christmas tree with a minimalistic star was part of the first emoji set ever created by the Japanese phone carrier SoftBank in November 1997. The Christmas tree was included in the emoji sets of the Japanese mobile phone operators Docomo in January 1999 and au by KDDI in May 2002; Apple introduced it to their iPhones in November 2008, before it was standardised in by the Unicode Consortium in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.

Etymology

Metonym.

Symbol

🎄

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, metonymically) Christmas or (more generally) the Christmas season; Christmastide; winter; the holidays

   Synonyms: 🎅, 🎁, 🦌

   • 2012 December 30, @dmtcnl, Twitter‎^[4]:

     Yeni yilda daha akli basinda,daha dogru kararlar veren,daha olgun,daha iyi,daha mutlu insanlarr olmamiz dilegiyle 😊 Mutlu yillarr 🎅🎄🎁🎉

     We hope that we will be more sane, more mature, better and happier people in the new year 😊 Happy New Year 🎅🎄🎁🎉

   • 2016 November 30, @NickyEchelon, Twitter‎^[5]:

     sui navigli c'è già l'atmosfera natalizia 🎅🎄🎁
     
     dec 1, 2016 📆

     There is already a Christmas atmosphere on the canals 🎅🎄🎁
     
     Dec 1, 2016 📆

   • 2020 December 25, FightBackFitness, r/AskReddit‎^[6], Reddit:

     That sucks... have an e-hug! Merry Christmas 🎄

   • 2024 July 28, @Rakuten__Eagles, Twitter‎^[7]:

     ベンチのサンタとグータッチ👊🔥
     
     #夏スタ! 〜真夏のクリスマス〜の期間中、
     スタジアムにはたくさんのサンタが🎅🏟
     
     みんなも見つけて写真を撮ってね🎄

     Give Santa a fist bump on the bench 👊🔥
     
     #summerstar! During the Midsummer Christmas period,
     There are lots of Santas in the stadium 🎅🏟
     
     Everyone, find it and take a photo 🎄

Usage notes

• The design of this pictogram varies by operating system and platform, but most are variations of, or very similar to, the above described design.