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🎅” meaning: Santa Claus Emoji

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  • 2.2+

    iOS 🎅Minimum display requirements

  • 4.3+

    Android 🎅Minimum display requirements

  • 8.0+

    Windows 🎅Minimum display requirements

🎅Meaning and Description

Say Merry Christmas to "🎅" (Santa Claus), also called the Father Christmas emoji, or simply the Santa emoji!

This emoji is designed as a cheerful, plump, white-bearded man, worn in a red Christmas hat with a fluffy white or cream-colored pom-pom sits atop the hat ends, which is typical of Santa Claus' classic attire. The design does vary slightly across different platforms. For instance, most platforms display Santa's head, but there are platforms like Google and OpenMoji display the half body of the character.

Santa, as we know, is a legendary character originating from Western Christian culture who brings gifts🎁 to the homes of well-behaved children on Christmas Eve, December 24, or during the early morning hours of Christmas Day. Santa Claus, the friendly gift-bringer we know today, his all red appearance may came from three main sources: Saint Nicholas of Myra, a kind 4th-century figure known for secret gift-giving, was the first inspiration. British and Dutch traditions contributed with their gift-giving figures, "Father Christmas" and "Sinterklaas". Finally, Santa's iconic red suit and jolly demeanor came from Coca-Cola's 1930s Christmas ads. These elements blended over time, shaping our modern Santa who delivers presents to kids around the world every Christmas Eve.

The 🎅 emoji is most used to signify Christmas, the holiday season, or the act of gift-giving. It encapsulates the joy, generosity, and spirit of giving that's inherent to the festive season. The emoji can also represent winter or cold weather, given Santa's association with the North Pole.

The Santa Claus emoji is a popular one on social media platforms. You can pop this emoji into your messages or posts when you're excitedly counting down to Christmas. It's also a fun way to represent the act of giving gifts, given Santa's famous role in the holiday season. If you're feeling the joy and anticipation that often comes with the festive season, this emoji can help express that too! Since Santa is a winter figure, it's not uncommon to use the emoji to talk about the cold weather or wintertime in general. You can even use it just for fun or to add a festive twist to your chats!

You can also check Mrs. Claus (🤶), which is Santa's wife, and the gender-neutral version of Mx Claus (🧑‍🎄). HoHoHo~
💡Extended reading and popular science

The meaning of emoji symbol 🎅 is Santa Claus, it is related to celebration, Christmas, claus, father, santa, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "🎅 Fantasy".

🎅 is an Emoji modifier base, it can be used as a single Emoji, and can also be combined with the skin tone Emoji modifier to form a new Emoji. There are 5 types of Emoji modifiers, namely: 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿. 🎅 is combined with these skin tone Emoji modifiers to form new Emoji modifier sequences. The following are examples of the combination:

🎅Examples and Usage

🔸 Jingle bells. Jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun. It is to ride. In a one-horse open sleigh. 🎅🎄
🔸 Santa Claus🎅 in Australia🇦🇺 must be very hot, because Christmas there is summer.

🎅Basic Information

Emoji: 🎅
Shortname: Santa Claus
Apple Name: Santa Claus
Known as: Father Christmas | Saint Nicholas | Sinterklaas
Codepoint: U+1F385 Copy
Shortcode: :santa: Copy
Decimal: ALT+127877
Unicode Version: 6.0 (2010-10-11)
Emoji Version: 1.0 (2015-06-09)
Categories: 👌 People & Body
Sub Categories: 🎅 Fantasy
Keywords: celebration | Christmas | claus | father | santa | Santa Claus
Proposal: L2/07‑257, L2/09‑026

👨‍💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)

🎅Trend Chart

🎅Popularity rating over time

🎅 Trend Chart (U+1F385) - emojiall.com 100 75 50 25 0 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 🎅 www.emojiall.comemojiall.com
Date Range: 2019-03-17 - 2024-03-17
Update Time: 2024-03-17 18:13:59 UTC
🎅and in the last five years, the popularity of this emoji has undergone several large changes.Around November every year, its popularity ushered in a significant increase.In 2018 and 2020, the trend of its popularity converge.

🎅More Languages

Language Short Name & Link
Arabic🎅 بابا نويل
Bulgarian🎅 дядо коледа
Chinese, Simplified🎅 圣诞老人
Chinese, Traditional🎅 聖誕老人
Croatian🎅 Djed Božićnjak
Czech🎅 Santa Claus
Danish🎅 julemand
Dutch🎅 kerstman
Filipino🎅 santa claus
Finnish🎅 joulupukki
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