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Santa Claus, sometimes referred to as&nbsp;Father Christmas, brings joy to children at <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>&nbsp;time.&nbsp;Displayed with a beard and red festive hat.

The Santa emoji had a <a href="/google/android-4.4/santa-claus/">frown on Android 4.4</a>, which was <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41827">resolved</a> in Android 5.0. See also: <a href="/christmas/">Christmas emoji list</a>.

Note: Father Christmas has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Christmas">different origin</a>&nbsp;to Santa Claus but both&nbsp;are represented by this single emoji.

Father Christmas

Mother Christmas

Mx Claus

Mother Christmas, more commonly known as Mrs. Claus, is the wife of <a href="/santa-claus/">Santa Claus.</a>&nbsp;Displayed as an <a href="/old-woman/" title="👵 Older Woman">older woman</a>&nbsp;with <a href="/glasses/" title="👓 Eyeglasses">glasses</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;a festive red and white bonnet.&nbsp;See also: <a href="/christmas/">Christmas emoji list</a>.

A snow cloud. Depicted as blue <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling from a white cloud.

May be used as a weather icon to represent snow showers or a snowy day.

Not to be confused with <a href="/cloud-with-rain/">🌧️ Cloud With Rain</a>.

Cloud with Snow

A present or gift in a box tied with a bow, as given on a <a href="/birthday/">birthday</a> or <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>. Box and ribbon color vary across platforms, but commonly depicted as a gold box with a lid wrapped with a red ribbon.

Commonly used to represent gifts and presents on various holidays, celebrations, and special occasions.

Samsung&rsquo;s design features a red ribbon tied around a blue box with white dots. WhatsApp&rsquo;s present is wrapped with blue paper and red ribbon.

Wrapped Present

A mountain with snow resting at higher altitudes. Similar in appearance to the <a href="/mount-fuji/" title="🗻 Mount Fuji">Mount Fuji</a> emoji.

Snow Capped Mountain

The unique, feathery ice crystal of a snowflake. Depicted as a bluish-white snowflake with six&nbsp;intricate&nbsp;symmetrical branches.

Like <a href="/cloud-with-snow/">🌨️ Cloud With Snow</a>, may be used as a weather icon to represent a snowstorm or a cold, snowy day. May also be used for various content concerning wintertime, <a href="/snow-capped-mountain/">cold climates</a>, and winter activity, such as <a href="/skis/">skiing</a>.

Sometimes used as an insult to call a person&nbsp;weak and&nbsp;oversensitive.

Snowflake

A golden-brown chocolate chip cookie&nbsp;or biscuit.&nbsp;Used to represent cookies or biscuits in general.

Samsung&#39;s original design featured a pair of pale&nbsp;square biscuits that also look like <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/cookie/">saltine crackers</a>. Since then they have changed their design to be a single chocolate chip cookie.

Cookie

A classic snowman, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman">Frosty the Snowman</a>, with <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling on it.&nbsp;Depicted as a snowman, facing forward, made from two or three large snowballs and stick arms, dressed with a <a href="/top-hat/">top hat</a>, a <a href="/carrot/">carrot</a> nose, coal eyes, and two or three buttons on its torso. Sometimes shown with a smile and a red <a href="/scarf/">scarf</a>.

Often used for various content concerning <a href="/winter/" title="⛄ Winter">winter</a> fun and <a href="/christmas/">Christmastime</a>.

Vendors implement the same figure for their <a href="/snowman-without-snow/" title=" ⛄ Snowman Without Snow">⛄ Snowman Without Snow</a>, which does not have snowflakes.

Google&rsquo;s snowman previously&nbsp;wore&nbsp;green <a href="/gloves/">gloves</a>, while&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/snowman/">Samsung&#39;s</a>&nbsp;design previously lacked a hat.

This snowman predates Unicode emoji support, which explains why it may display as the&nbsp;black-and-white <a href="/glossary/#white">outline</a> of a snowman.

Snowman

A classic snowman, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosty_the_Snowman">Frosty the Snowman</a>.&nbsp;Depicted as a snowman, facing forward, made from two or three large snowballs and stick arms, dressed with a <a href="/top-hat/">top hat</a>, a <a href="/carrot/">carrot</a> nose, coal eyes, and two or three buttons on its torso. Sometimes shown with a smile and a red <a href="/scarf/">scarf</a>.

Often used for various content concerning <a href="/winter/" title="⛄ Winter">winter</a> fun and Christmastime.

Vendors implement the same figure for their <a href="/snowman/">☃️ Snowman</a>, but which has <a href="/snowflake/">snowflakes</a> falling on it.

Google&rsquo;s snowman is wearing green <a href="/gloves/">gloves</a>,&nbsp;though its snowman <a href="/google/android-7.0/snowman-without-snow/">previously</a> lacked any attire. <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/snowman-without-snow/">Samsung&#39;s</a> previously lacked a hat.

Snowman Without Snow

A classic Christmas tree, an evergreen tree decorated with lights and ornaments to celebrate <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>.&nbsp; Depicted with round, variously colored&nbsp;ornaments and topped with a yellow <a href="/star/">star</a>.

Used for various content concerning the Christmas holiday and season as well as for wintertime more generally.

Not to be confused with <a href="/evergreen-tree/">🌲 Evergreen Tree</a>, though their applications may overlap.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/christmas-tree/">Google</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-8.1/christmas-tree/">Samsung&#39;s</a> trees were previously adorned with tinsel, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/christmas-tree/">Microsoft&#39;s</a> previously lacked ornaments.

Christmas Tree

A tall glass of white milk, as from a&nbsp;<a href="/cow/">cow</a>&nbsp;but also other mammals, nuts, or plants. Most platforms depict a glass filled near to the brim, but some show a glass half-full&mdash;or half-empty.

Glass of Milk

A deer, a fleet-footed, hoofed mammal whose males (bucks, stags) generally have antlers. Variously depicted as a light-brown deer in full profile on all fours facing left or as a&nbsp;deer face looking straight head;&nbsp;both depictions feature large, branched antlers.

May be used to represent elk, moose, antelope, or reindeer, especially in connection with <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>.&nbsp;Most platforms display a deer in full profile.&nbsp;Twitter&nbsp;shows a deer face.

Google&rsquo;s deer <a href="/google/android-8.0/deer/">previously</a> had a red nose, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer">Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer</a>. Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s deers are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer">white-tailed</a>.

Deer

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

Skype has a series of emoji-like emoticons which have their own distinct animated appearance.

A subset of Skype emoticons were available in Microsoft Teams before the 3D versions of Microsoft&#39;s new Fluent emoji set began <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1491752269880115200">rolling out in February 2022</a>.

The Skype emoticon set differs from the emoji set from parent company Microsoft, which is used as&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/">the system-wide emoji font in&nbsp;Windows 10</a>.

Skype uses its own system of shortcodes to enter each emoticon, for instance:

<ul>
	<li>:^) = 🤨</li>
	<li>(cwl) = 😂</li>
	<li>(stareyes) = 🤩</li>
</ul>

These shortcodes are replaced by the emoticon within Skype. If using a Unicode-compatible emoji code point, this will be given the system-wide emoji appearance:&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> set on Skype for Windows, <a href="/apple/">Apple</a> set on Skype for macOS or iOS, <a href="/samsung/">Samsung</a> set on phones using&nbsp;OneUI.

The majority of&nbsp;Skype Emoticons have&nbsp;equivalents in the Unicode Standard, while a number of emoticons go beyond what is offered by the standardized emoji set. For example, Skype&#39;s offers&nbsp;variety of additional pride-related flags alongside <a href="/pride/">🏳️&zwj;🌈 Pride</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️&nbsp;Transgender Flag</a>, such as those shown below.

<img alt="" src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2021/07/15/pride-flags-x4-genderflux.gif" style="width: 448px; height: 80px;" />

Emoticons and emojis used in Skype and Microsoft Teams.

Skype Emoticons

A Unicode-adjacent subset of Skype&#39;s current animated emoticons. Released in summer of 2015.

These animated emoticons are created via shortcodes.

For purposes of display on Emojipedia, the emoticons from Skype Emoticons 1.2 have been assigned a&nbsp;codepoints from a Unicode-equivalent emoji.

🎅 Santa Claus on Skype Emoticons 1.2

🎅 Santa Claus on Skype Emoticons 1.2

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