Santa claus: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of Santa Claus featuring a thick white beard, a red hat with a white trim, and a dark skin tone. The design captures the classic jolly figure of festive folklore.

Usage Context

Widely used to denote Christmas celebrations, winter holidays, or gift-giving activities. Users often deploy this emoji during December to signal excitement for the season, sometimes pairing it with 🎁 or 🎄 to highlight the spirit of the holidays.

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 to make character emojis more representative of the diverse global population that celebrates the holiday.

Details

Glyph

🎅🏿

Unicode

U+1F385 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f385_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF85;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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