Santa Claus is instantly recognizable in almost every corner of the globe – even in parts of the world which don’t traditionally celebrate the holidays – as the bearer of gifts and the harbinger of festive cheer. In all versions of the emoji, he is show with his unmistakable white beard and whiskers, and with a characteristic fur-trimmed red hat. Depending on the platform used, the Santa Claus or Father Christmas emoji has either a jovial or passive facial expression. The emoji is used to represent Christmas and the holiday season generally, as well as the act of gift giving, Kris Kingle and the winter months.
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Note: - If you can't see the emoji, your device may not support Santa Claus emoji but you can still use it on other platforms.
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Santa Claus may look different on every device. In the above images you can view how Santa Claus emoji appears on different devices. Emoji of Santa Claus can be used on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other platforms and OS. Some devices may show a blank box or X instead of Santa Claus emoji as every device doesn't support each one of the emoji.
This emoji was first introduced in Unicode 6.0 in October, 2010 which was followed by addition to Emoji 1.0 in August, 2015. Santa Claus emoji appeared on iOS 5.0, Android 4.3, EmojiOne 1.0 for the first time.
| Language | Short Name |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Papá Noel |
| German | Weihnachtsmann |
| French | Père Noël |
| Russian | Санта Клаус |
| Italian | Babbo Natale |
| Portuguese | Papai Noel |
| Unicode : | U+1F385 |
| Hex Code | |
|---|---|
| Code Point(s): | 1f385 |
| HTML Entity: | 🎅 |
| UTF-8: | F0 9F 8E 85 |
| UTF-8 (C): | F0 9F 8E 85 |
| UTF-16: | 0xd83cdf85 |
| UTF-16 (C): | 0xD83C 0xDF85 |
| UTF-32: | 1F385 |
| UTF-32 (C): | 0x00001F385 |
| Decimal Code | |
| Code Point(s): | 127877 |
| HTML Entity: | 🎅 |
| UTF-16: | 55356 57221 |
| UTF-32: | 127877 |
| Octal Code | |
| UTF-8: | 360 237 216 205 |
| Other developer codes: | |
| PHP: | "\xf0\x9f\x8e\x85" |
| Python: | u"\U0001F385" |
| Java, C++, C: | "0xD83C\uDF85" |
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