🎅

🎅 U+1F385, 🎅 FATHER CHRISTMAS ← 🎄 [U+1F384] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🎆 → [U+1F386]

Translingual

Description

Depiction of Father Christmas or Santa Claus: an elderly bearded man wearing a red and white bobble hat (Santa hat).

Etymology

First introduced as an emoji by the Japanese phone carrier SoftBank in January 2000, and standardised in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.

Symbol

🎅

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

Usage notes

• The design of this emoji varies by operating system and platform.
• Using this emoji with skin type modifiers 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿 will result in the following:

Fitzpatrick skin types

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🎅	🎅🏻	🎅🏼	🎅🏽	🎅🏾	🎅🏿