🎅 Meaning – Santa Claus Emoji

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This emoji shows a never-old, classic, nice Santa Claus face. This is a very popular emoji during Christmas time since Santa Claus is one of the most representative symbol of this time of the year. Together with other Christmas emoji can be the perfect complement to you text wishing merry Christmas to friends and family.

The Santa Claus Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Santa Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Christmas Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Santa Hat Emoji.

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Santa Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F385
Unicode name: Santa Claus
Category: Smileys & People / Fictional Characters
Keywords: celebration, Christmas, claus, father, santa, activity, christmas, fairy tale, fantasy
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F385
Decimal HTML Entity: 🎅
Hex HTML Entity: 🎅
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83C 0xDF85
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🎅 emoji variants

Santa Claus: Light Skin Tone

Santa Claus: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Santa Claus: Medium Skin Tone

Santa Claus: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Santa Claus: Dark Skin Tone

Flag: Christmas Island

🌐 Santa Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Weihnachtsmann	Weihnachten
Français	père Noël	noël, père
Русский	Санта-Клаус	дед мороз, дедушка мороз, клаус, новый год, рождество, санта, санта-клаус
Español	Papá Noel	celebración, claus, navidad, papá noel, santa
Italiano	Babbo Natale	festa, Natale
Português	Papai Noel	comemoração, Natal, Noel
Polski	Święty Mikołaj	boże narodzenie, legenda, święta, święty mikołaj

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How to type Santa Claus Emoji

There are number of methods to type Santa Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🎅 emoji

It's very easy to get Santa Claus Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🎅 meaning and look at 🎅 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🎅 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.