Santa claus: light skin tone Emoji

People

A cheerful, light-skinned version of Santa Claus with a bushy white beard, rosy cheeks, and a signature red hat topped with a white pom-pom.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for wishing friends a happy holiday season, discussing Christmas gift-giving, or referencing the legendary figure of St. Nick. It is often combined with festive icons like 🎄 or 🎁 to build out a holiday-themed message.

History

Santa Claus was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The skin tone variations were introduced later in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, which aimed to make character emojis more inclusive by allowing users to select modifiers that reflect human diversity.

Details

Glyph

🎅🏻

Unicode

U+1F385 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f385_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDF85;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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