Santa Claus: light skin tone emoji is the jolly bearded legend himself, rendered with a light complexion. It pops up in December hype, Secret Santa invites, gift reveals, and any chat that needs instant North Pole energy. Emotionally it screams cozy generosity, peppermint-fueled nostalgia, and that kid-on-Christmas-morning sparkle. Meme-wise, people drop it the moment "Mariah Carey has defrosted," when they claim they’re about to "sleigh" a to‑do list, or before a chaotic holiday party with a dramatic "ho ho hold my beer." It also works sarcastically for budget Grinch moments—"I’m totally buying gifts this year"—followed by, well, this face.
On Apple/iOS, Santa is a front-facing headshot with a fluffy white beard and mustache, rosy cheeks, and a gentle smile under a bright red cap with white fur trim and a round pom‑pom; the light skin tone gives him a warm peachy look. The eyes are soft and twinkly, eyebrows arched just enough to look friendly, and the glossy shading gives that classic Apple toy‑store window glow. People pair it with 🎁🎄❄️🍪🥛 to signal deliveries, tree-lightings, cookie bribes, or full-on elf workshop mode. It can read playfully flirty ("you’ve been very nice"), ironically generous ("bonus incoming… jk"), or as a wholesome dad-joke stamp on any holiday pun. Also handy for tracking packages like a DIY NORAD Santa—except you’re refreshing the mail app.
The Father Christmas emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2032 of 2393 |
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| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | White Father Christmas Santa Claus: light skin tone Santa Claus: Light Skin Tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🎅🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🎅🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🎅 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🎅 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f385, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F385, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127877, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x85, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8E 85, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 216 205, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF85, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf85, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57221, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F385 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F385, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127877, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F385\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8e\x85\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF85\uD83C\uDFFB" |
