Meaning
A lion. Conveys courage, royalty and the zodiac Leo.
Lion — Approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Similar — Animals & Nature
Browse allUsed in combos
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lion and leaf — jungle king
fox · lion — forest walk
lion · koala — little claws
panda · lion — wild heart
lion · tiger — jungle mood
bear · lion — forest walk
lion · unicorn — nature call
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Emoji names around the world
Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.
Quick facts
Quick facts
Developer
Unicode data
Code points
U+1F981Unicode name
lionUTF-8
F0 9F A6 81Shortcodes
Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack)
:lion:HTML & CSS
HTML (hex)
🦁HTML (decimal)
🦁CSS
\1F981 Languages
JavaScript
\u{1F981}Python
\U0001F981Perl
\x{1F981}PHP / Ruby
\u{1F981}Encodings
Punycode
xn--0s9hURL escape code
%F0%9F%A6%81Frequently asked
What does 🦁 lion mean?
A lion. Conveys courage, royalty and the zodiac Leo.
What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for 🦁 lion?
U+1F981 (Unicode 8.0, 2015) · :lion:
Which emojis are related to 🦁 lion?
🐵 monkey face, 🐒 monkey, 🦍 gorilla, 🦧 orangutan, 🐶 dog face, 🐕 dog, 🦮 guide dog, 🐕🦺 service dog