🎄 Christmas Tree

Unicode lists 🎄 Christmas Tree among the celebrations in the Activities group. People send it when the subject is celebration, christmas and tree.

🎄 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Weather and Seasons. It joined the standard with Emoji 0.6 in 2010, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F384.

• 🎄 on its own already flags the topic: celebration.
• 🎄⛄ – Christmas greetings and everything around the holidays.
• Often seen near 🎇 Sparkler, 🎆 Fireworks and 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern.

The decorated Christmas tree arose in the German-speaking world in the sixteenth century and only spread globally in the nineteenth – it reached England through Prince Albert, Victoria’s German husband.

In Japan, Christmas has taken hold without any Christian element: a romantic evening for couples, often with fried chicken from KFC – a 1974 advertising campaign that became tradition. Many Orthodox countries, meanwhile, celebrate on 7 January.

• 🎄⛄ – Christmas greetings and everything around the holidays.
• 🎄🎍 – Christmas Tree and Pine Decoration
• 🎄✨ – Christmas Tree with Sparkles
• 🎄🎈 – Christmas Tree plus Balloon
• 🎄🧨 – Christmas Tree and Firecracker
• 🎄🎉 – Christmas Tree with Party Popper

Easy to mix up with 🎇 Sparkler, 🎆 Fireworks or 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.