🎄Christmas Tree Emoji
It usually just means Christmas or the winter holidays. People use it to show they’re celebrating or thinking about the season.
The 🎄 emoji is a Christmas tree.
- Unicode
- U+1F384
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :christmas_tree:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🎄 Christmas Tree emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Christmas Tree emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F384. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Christmas Tree emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :christmas_tree:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the christmas tree, code point U+1F384.
How to type the 🎄 Christmas Tree emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Christmas Tree emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Christmas Tree emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around christmas tree for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎄, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🎄 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🎄 means in other countries
Straightforwardly a Christmas symbol worldwide, tied to Christian and Western winter-holiday tradition specifically.
Simple, warm shorthand for the holiday season among friends and family who celebrate it.
Can feel presumptuous as a generic “happy holidays” to colleagues who don’t celebrate Christmas.
Before you send it: Great one-to-one with people who celebrate; for a mixed office group, a neutral “happy holidays” text reads safer.
What 🎄 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F384, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🎄 vs 🎋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Christmas Tree
Code: U+1F384 · added 2010
Shortcode: :christmas_tree:
It usually just means Christmas or the winter holidays.
Unicode name: Tanabata Tree
Code: U+1F38B · added 2010
Shortcode: :tanabata_tree:
Generally, it just means "tanabata tree" or “bamboo.
Where the 🎄 Christmas Tree emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F384 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎄 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6A4, KDDI au E4C9, SoftBank E033.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Christmas Tree was approved as U+1F384 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎄 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.