Santa claus: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A festive depiction of Santa Claus featuring a medium-dark skin tone, complete with his iconic red hat, a thick white beard, and a warm, smiling expression. This version brings more inclusive representation to the classic holiday character.

Usage Context

Used widely during the winter holiday season to spread Christmas cheer, signal gift-giving, or reference the legend of St. Nick. It is frequently sent alongside winter-themed icons like ❄️ or 🎁 to decorate social media posts and holiday greetings.

History

Santa Claus was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option to modify his skin tone was introduced in 2015 as part of an effort by the Unicode Consortium to make human-based emojis more reflective of the diverse global population that uses them daily.

Details

Glyph

🎅🏾

Unicode

U+1F385 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f385_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF85;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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