🎅🏿 is the Black Santa bringing inclusive holiday cheer, cozy vibes, and a little "sleigh vs. slay" wordplay to your timeline. People drop it into Secret Santa invites, gift reveal posts, and humblebrag hauls, or use it ironically like "fine, I’ll be my own Santa this year." It can read sweet (cookies, cocoa, and wholesome family pics) or chaotic (last‑minute shopping speedrun, ho ho hold my beer). Also doubles as a wink that you’re the one funding Christmas: paycheck hits, emoji goes up.
On Apple/iOS, this shows a front‑facing Santa head with a warm dark skin tone, a snowy white beard and mustache, kind eyes, and a soft smile under a bright red hat trimmed in puffy white fur with a round pom‑pom. The colors pop—crisp whites, saturated red—so it’s instantly recognizable in a crowded caption. You’ll see it in memes about Mariah Carey “defrosting,” NORAD Santa tracker jokes, and captions like "checking the list twice (it’s just my cart)." Flirt mode? Pair it with Santa baby lyrics or beard thirst posts; sarcasm mode? Use it when you promise “gifts” that are actually screenshots and vibes. From mall‑photo nostalgia to chimney‑raid humor, this emoji is the festive face of being generous, dramatic, or delightfully extra in December.
The Father Christmas emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3832 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture |  |
| 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: | Black Father Christmas Santa Claus: dark skin tone Santa Claus: Dark 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F385, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127877, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x85, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8E 85, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 216 205, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF85, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf85, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57221, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F385 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F385, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127877, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F385\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8e\x85\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF85\uD83C\uDFFF" |
