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🎄 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).

Etymology

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 Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.

Symbol

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

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.