Category: People & Body

🎅Santa Claus

🎅 Santa Claus belongs to People & Body. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.

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Meaning

A jolly man in a red suit, often used to represent Christmas and Santa Claus.

Aliases

:santa:

Keywords

celebrationchristmasclausfairyfantasyfatherholidaymerrysantatalexmasSanta Claus

What does 🎅 Santa Claus mean?

This emoji depicts Santa Claus, the legendary figure who delivers gifts to children on Christmas Eve. It is primarily used during the holiday season to celebrate Christmas, discuss presents, or spread festive cheer. Depending on context, it can also represent winter holidays more broadly or be used playfully to talk about giving or receiving gifts.

Often used for

Wishing someone a Merry Christmas
Talking about Christmas presents and gift-giving
Discussing holiday plans or winter break
Referencing Santa Claus in stories or movies
Joking about who is playing Santa for a group

Tone: The tone is generally lighthearted and festive. It is almost exclusively tied to the Christmas season, so using it outside of this context might cause confusion.

Illustrative message examples with 🎅

These examples are illustrative, not observed messages.

merry christmas! hope santa brings you everything you wanted 🎅
playing santa for the kids this year, wrapping is taking forever 🎅
are we doing a secret santa this year? 🎅
santa came early this year 🎅🎁
watching the polar express tonight, classic santa movie 🎅
i've been eating so many cookies lately, starting to look like santa 🎅

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How 🎅 Santa Claus looks

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🎅 Santa Claus codes for developers

Every format below produces 🎅 — click Copy on the one your stack needs.

Emoji	`🎅`
Unicode codepoints	`U+1F385`
HTML (decimal)	`🎅`
HTML (hex)	`🎅`
CSS	`\1F385`
JavaScript	`\u{1F385}`
JSON	`\uD83C\uDF85`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8E%85`
Shortcode (GitHub)	`:santa:`