What 🤶 means
From 19th-century American Christmas stories. The earliest reported mention is James Rees's 1849 story A Christmas Legend, where a couple mistaken for Santa and his wife turn out to be relatives. Margaret Eytinge's 1881 poem gives her a job: making sweets and toys.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Mr. and Mrs. Claus: a holiday greeting from a couple.
A love note to grandma.
Worth knowing
- 🤶 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Is sending 🤶 to an older woman rude?
Usually not. From family it reads as affectionate; from others, pointed at her age, it can land as teasing.
How to type 🤶
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “Mrs. Claus”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “Mrs. Claus”.
Chat apps
:mrs_claus:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🤶Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🤶
HTML hex
🤶
CSS content
content: "\1F936";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A4%B6
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.