| Emoji | 🎅 |
| Name | Santa Claus |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F385 |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subcategory | Person Fantasy |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | celebration, christmas, claus, fairy, fantasy, father, holiday, merry, santa, tale, xmas |
| Decimal Value | 127877 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F385 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🎅 / 🎅 |
The Santa Claus emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.
Category context: The People & Body category is Unicode's largest emoji group, covering body parts, hand gestures, family compositions, professions, and activities — many of which support optional skin-tone modifiers to represent human diversity.
Cataloged under Person Fantasy within the People & Body category, Santa Claus is the 1240th of 2418 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F385.
💡 Good to know: This emoji, like all emoji, renders differently across platforms and operating systems — always preview on your target device before finalizing important visual communication.