Santa Claus Emoji
What does the Santa Claus emoji mean?
A jolly man with a long white beard, wearing a red cap trimmed with white fur — one of the most iconic images of Christmas and New Year, also known as Father Christmas.
New Year's emoji 🎄 depicts the familiar holiday figure — Santa Claus (also called Father Christmas). The emoji shows a yellow-faced, grandfatherly man with a thick white beard, wearing a red hat topped with a white pom‑pom.
This emoji is commonly used in New Year’s greetings exchanged around the holidays. It often replaces the words Santa Claus, Father Christmas, St. Nicholas.
Also Known As
- 🎅 Saint Nicholas
- 🎅 Sinterklaas
Apple Name
- 🎅 Santa Claus
Unicode Name
- 🎅 Father Christmas
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Santa Claus emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🎅 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F385
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%8E%85 |
| Punycode | xn--8j8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 8E 85 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDF85 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f385 |
| CSS | \01F385 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F385} |
| Perl | \x{1F385} |
| HTML hex | 🎅 |
| HTML dec | 🎅 |
Tags: celebration, Christma, clau, father, Santa Clau, Christmas, claus, fairy, fantasy, holiday, merry, santa, tale, xmas
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Fantasy characters