Santa claus: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A cheerful, bearded Santa Claus wearing a red hat with a white trim, displayed with a medium-light skin tone. He sports a full white mustache and beard, conveying the classic jolly appearance of the holiday figure.

Usage Context

Widely used throughout December to discuss Christmas preparations, gift-giving, or holiday festivities. It acts as a friendly shorthand for winter cheer and is frequently paired with other festive icons like 🎄, 🎁, or ❄️ to set a seasonal mood.

History

Santa Claus was officially added to the Unicode set in 2010, though the ability to modify his skin tone arrived later in 2015 via the Emoji 1.0 update. This addition was part of a broader effort by the Unicode Consortium to make digital representations of diverse human characters more inclusive across global platforms.

Details

Glyph

🎅🏼

Unicode

U+1F385 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f385_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF85;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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