The Santa Claus: medium skin tone emoji brings inclusive holiday cheer, starring the world’s most famous gift-giver with a warm brown complexion. On Apple/iOS, he’s a friendly, front-facing headshot: red cap with white fur trim and a fluffy pom‑pom, crisp white beard and mustache, soft smile, and twinkly eyes that say, “I brought receipts…and presents.” The medium skin tone is visible on the forehead, nose, and ears, framed by that cloudlike beard—instantly recognizable in a crowded comment thread.
People drop this emoji for Secret Santa reveals, wish-list hints, and “be good, I’m watching” jokes about the naughty-or-nice list. It’s also prime for meme season—think Mariah Carey “defrosting” on November 1, or ironic usage during July sales when you’re treating yourself like it’s Christmas morning. Pair it with a gift box, tree, or sparkle emoji to announce deliveries, office party plans, or a stocking-stuffer haul; add a wink if you’re teasing a surprise. Sarcastically, it can mean “sure, money grows on sleighs,” when the group chat suggests an expensive outing, or “expect miracles,” when shipping says ‘delayed.’
The Father Christmas emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3830 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: | Olive Toned Father Christmas Santa Claus: medium skin tone Santa Claus: Medium 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F385, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127877, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x85, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8E 85, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 216 205, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF85, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf85, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57221, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F385 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F385, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127877, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F385\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8e\x85\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF85\uD83C\uDFFD" |
