Lion Emoji 🦁

Lion
U+1F981
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Emoji Meaning

A friendly lion face looking straight forward. It's depicted as a yellow-gold lion's face with a light or dark-brown mane. Available as Apple Animoji.

The symbol “Lion” is included in the “Animal symbols” subblock of the “Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 8.0 in 2015. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Mammal” subcategory of the “Animals & Nature” category.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Emoji 🦁 Lion on platforms

Unicode Name Lion Face
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Subblock Animal symbols
Unicode Version 8.0 (2015)
Emoji Version 1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category Animals & Nature
Emoji Subcategory Mammal
Emoji Name Lion
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 1F981
Simple case change 1F981
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 F0 9F A6 81 240 159 166 129 4036994689 11110000 10011111 10100110 10000001
UTF-16BE D8 3E DD 81 216 62 221 129 3627998593 11011000 00111110 11011101 10000001
UTF-16LE 3E D8 81 DD 62 216 129 221 1054376413 00111110 11011000 10000001 11011101
UTF-32BE 00 01 F9 81 0 1 249 129 129409 00000000 00000001 11111001 10000001
UTF-32LE 81 F9 01 00 129 249 1 0 2180579584 10000001 11111001 00000001 00000000

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