🦁 Lion is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F981 and it was released in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🦁 Lion mean?
🦁 is the Lion emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Mammals in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to alpha, animal, face, leo and mane. It was approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :lion: to insert it.
Lion emoji codes
| Emoji | 🦁 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F981 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🦁 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🦁 |
| CSS | \1F981 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F981} |
| Python | \U0001F981 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%81 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 81 |
| Shortcode | :lion: |
How to type 🦁 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “lion”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “lion”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “lion”.
- HTML: write
🦁in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Lion keywords
- alpha
- animal
- face
- leo
- mane
- order
- rawr
- roar
- safari
- strong
- zodiac
Frequently asked questions
What does 🦁 mean?
🦁 is the Lion emoji, listed under Animals & Nature → Mammals in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to alpha, animal, face, leo and mane. It was approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :lion: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Lion emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🦁 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🦁 Lion added to Unicode?
Lion was released as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Related Mammals emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.