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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

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>.

Mother Christmas

A yellow face with a party hat blowing a party horn as confetti floats around its head. Used for celebrating joyous occasions (such as <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&#39;s Eve</a> or <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>) and enjoying good times more generally.

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚&nbsp;Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>.

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Face with Party Horn and Party Hat

A party popper, as explodes&nbsp;in a shower of confetti and streamers at a celebration. Generally depicted as a gold party hat, striped on some platforms, at a 45&deg; angle, with multicolored confetti and streamers coming from its opening at the upper right. Twitter&rsquo;s cone is red.

Like <a href="/confetti-ball/">🎊 Confetti Ball</a>, commonly used to convey congratulations and celebration, as on <a href="/new-years-eve/">New Year&rsquo;s Eve</a>, <a href="/birthday/">birthdays</a>, <a href="/wedding-marriage/">wedding days</a>, <a href="/graduation/">graduations</a>, and other special occasions or good times more generally.

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Party Popper

A turkey, a gobbling bird traditionally eaten at <a href="/thanksgiving/">Thanksgiving</a> or <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>. Depicted in full profile facing left, standing on its legs with a dark-brown body, a white-fringed plume, pink or blue head, and its distinctive red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood_(anatomy)">snood and wattle</a>.

May be consumed in the form of <a href="/poultry-leg/">🍗 Poultry Leg</a>.

Turkey

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

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 person, generally depicted as being older with gray hair,&nbsp;wearing a red Christmas (aka &quot;Santa&quot;) hat. Does not represent any specific character in folklore. Mx Claus&nbsp;provides a&nbsp;gender inclusive alternative to&nbsp;<a href="/santa-claus/">🎅&nbsp;Santa Claus</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/mrs-claus/">🤶&nbsp;Mrs. Claus</a>.

Apple depicts Mx Claus as wearing <a href="/glasses/">glasses</a>, while other vendors do not.

Mx is an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mx_(title)">honorific that does not indicate gender</a>.

Mx Claus

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 Japanese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu">kadomatsu</a>, composed of pine leaves and bamboo shoots. Traditionally placed outside homes in Japan around the New Year to welcome spirits for a plentiful, happy year ahead.

Depicted as three shoots of <a href="/tanabata-tree/">bamboo</a>, arranged vertically at different heights in a wooden container, arrayed with pine leaves.

Often used to represent various plants or as a green accent color.

WhatsApp&rsquo;s kadomatsu is adorned with red berries, as is Facebook&rsquo;s, which also includes pink <a href="/cherry-blossom/">cherry blossoms</a>.

Pine Decoration

The flag for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland">Finland</a>, which may show as the letters&nbsp;FI&nbsp;on some platforms.

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	<li>🇫🇮 Finnish Flag Emoji</li>
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Flag: Finland

The flag for Christmas Island, which may show as the letters&nbsp;CX&nbsp;on some platforms.

Flag: Christmas Island

An evergreen tree, which keeps green leaves all year round. Depicted as a tall, dark green, cone-shaped tree with shaggy, layered leaves, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine">pine</a>&nbsp;or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir">fir</a>, showing a brown trunk.

May be decorated in the form of a <a href="/christmas-tree/">🎄 Christmas Tree</a>. May also be used to represent various types of trees, forests, northern climates, nature, winter, and the <a href="/christmas/">Christmas season</a>.

Evergreen Tree

A crispy brown leg (drumstick) of&nbsp;<a href="/chicken/" title="🐔 Chicken">chicken</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/duck/">duck</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/turkey/" title="🦃 Turkey">turkey</a>, or other poultry on the bone, as roasted at&nbsp;<a href="/thanksgiving/" title="🍴 Thanksgiving">Thanksgiving&nbsp;</a>or&nbsp;<a href="/christmas/" title="🎅 Christmas">Christmas&nbsp;</a>dinner or fried at fast-food restaurants.

Poultry Leg

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

A knitted wool scarf, generally worn for warmth. Colored red across most emoji design vendors.

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Scarf

A pair of knitted wool gloves, generally worn for warmth. The colors vary across different vendors.

Gloves

One or two stumps of wood, cut so the rings are showing. Can be used to talk about wood or building materials.&nbsp;

Also used in idioms with wood like knock on wood or&nbsp;out of the woods. Used to caption dic pics, often alongside the expression morning wood. Sometimes used in the context of games like Catan or Minecraft, where wood is a resource.

Wood

A church building, generally associated with Christian denominations. In addition quiet&nbsp;<a href="/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands">prayer</a>, churches hold regular&nbsp;<a href="/raising-hands/" title="🙌 Person Raising Both Hands In Celebration">worship</a> services, <a href="/wedding/" title="💒 Wedding">weddings</a>, <a href="/baby/" title="👶 Baby">baptisms</a> and funerals.

Church

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 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.

Emojis displayed on iPhone, iPad,&nbsp;Mac, <a href="/apple-watch/">Apple Watch</a> and Apple TV use the&nbsp;Apple Color Emoji font installed on&nbsp;iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Some Apple devices support&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/memoji/">Memoji</a>.&nbsp;Two Private Use Area characters are not cross-platform compatible&nbsp;but do work on Apple devices:

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In March 2023&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-16.4/">iOS 16.4</a>&nbsp;included&nbsp;brand new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>, the latest set of emoji recommendations made in September 2022. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-16-4-emoji-changelog/">More about this release.</a>

Full list of emojis supported on Apple platforms including new 2023 emojis in iOS 16.4 (iPhone), iPadOS, macOS Big Sur, watchOS and tvOS. New emojis, and emoji image comparisons.

🎄 Christmas Tree on Apple iOS 12.1

🎄 Christmas Tree on Apple iOS 12.1

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