The Santa Claus: medium-light skin tone emoji is your jolly shortcut to holiday vibes, gift drops, and “I did a nice thing, please clap” energy. People use it to announce Secret Santa schemes, tease surprise presents, or ironically flex generosity after doing the bare minimum—like handing someone a single candy cane and calling it philanthropy. It also shows up in memes when Mariah Carey thaws out in November and the group chat officially switches to sleigh bells and shipping delays. Flirty twist? Drop it with “Santa baby” energy when you’re hinting that your wish list is not-so-subtle.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a cozy front-facing headshot: bright red hat with plush white trim and a fluffy pom‑pom, snowy beard and mustache, soft rosy cheeks, and kind eyes with a gentle smile; the medium-light skin tone shows on the nose, eyelids, and ears. No sack, no sleigh—just the iconic face that screams milk-and-cookies diplomacy. Culturally, it channels St. Nick/Father Christmas lore and the Coca‑Cola-era red suit that locked in the modern Santa image. Beyond December, people use it sarcastically—“look who finally delivered”—or to celebrate that moment you become everyone’s personal courier of snacks and good moods.
The Father Christmas emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3829 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: | Light Brown Father Christmas Santa Claus: medium-light skin tone Santa Claus: Medium-Light Skin Tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F385, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127877, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x85, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8E 85, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 216 205, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF85, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf85, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57221, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F385 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F385, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127877, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F385\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8e\x85\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF85\uD83C\uDFFC" |
