🎅

Text style	Emoji style
🎅︎	🎅️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🎅 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, metonymic) 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.
• The base emoji typically has a generic, non-realistic skin tone, such as bright yellow, blue, gray. With the Fitzpatrick skin type modifiers 1–2 (🏻), 3 (🏼), 4 (🏽), 5 (🏾), 6 (🏿), the resulting emoji be will one of the following combinations:

Fitzpatrick skin types

–	1–2	3	4	5	6
🎅	🎅🏻	🎅🏼	🎅🏽	🎅🏾	🎅🏿