Lion Emoji
A golden-brown lion face with a full, shaggy mane, wide eyes, and a calm but powerful expression. It is used to represent the animal itself, the zodiac sign Leo, or traits like courage and leadership in texts about wildlife or personality.
Lion is a fully-qualified emoji encoded in Unicode 8.0 , and included in Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
This emoji is part of the Animals & Nature and is grouped with other Animal Mammal emojis. Part of the Unicode Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block.
To find this emoji, you can use the following keywords:
Copy and paste the Lion emoji:
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Codes & Encoding for the Lion Emoji
Click any code below to copy it to your clipboard.
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Codepoint
U+1F981✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
🦁✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
🦁✓ Copied -
CSS
\1F981✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{1F981}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%A6%81✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:lion:✓ Copied - Unicode block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
How to Type the Lion Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :lion: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :lion: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Lion Emoji on Different Platforms
How to Use the Lion Emoji
- King of the jungle 🦁
- Lions are majestic 🦁
- That lion roar was loud 🦁