U+1F385 "🎅" Father Christmas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🎅
U+1F385 "🎅" Father Christmas is a graphical representation of a jolly, bearded figure dressed in a red suit with white fur trim, commonly known as Santa Claus in Western culture. This character is part of the Emoticons and Emoji block and is used in digital communication to convey themes of Christmas, gift giving, winter holidays, and festive cheer. The design typically includes a red hat and sometimes a black belt, and it appears across various platforms with slight stylistic variations while maintaining the iconic image of the benevolent gift giver associated with the Christmas season.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F385 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Father Christmas |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🎅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🎅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83C 0xDF85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F385 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83c\udf85 |