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U+1F385 · FATHER CHRISTMAS

Santa Claus

  • CodepointU+1F385
  • NameFATHER CHRISTMAS
  • Emoji nameSanta Claus
  • Decimal127877
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (U+1F300–U+1F5FF)
  • Plane1 — Supplementary Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version6.0 (2010)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+1F385 (🎅) is FATHER CHRISTMAS, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “Santa Claus”, in the People & Body group, subgroup person-fantasy. It displays as a colour emoji by default. It accepts skin-tone modifiers (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF).

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type 🎅

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8F0 9F 8E 854 bytes
UTF-16D83C DF85surrogate pair
UTF-320001F3854 bytes
HTML decimal🎅
HTML hex🎅
CSS\1F385in content: "…"
JavaScript\u{1F385}ES2015+
JavaScript\uD83C\uDF85surrogate pair
JSON\uD83C\uDF85
Python\U0001F385
Python\N{FATHER CHRISTMAS}by name
Java / C#\uD83C\uDF85
C / C++\U0001F385universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1F385}
Go\U0001F385
Ruby\u{1F385}
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(127877)
URL-encoded%F0%9F%8E%85percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

All in block →
U+1F37F🍿Popcorn U+1F380🎀Ribbon U+1F381🎁Wrapped Gift U+1F382🎂Birthday Cake U+1F383🎃Jack-O-Lantern U+1F384🎄Christmas Tree U+1F386🎆Fireworks U+1F387🎇Sparkler U+1F388🎈Balloon U+1F389🎉Party Popper U+1F38A🎊Confetti Ball U+1F38B🎋Tanabata Tree