lion

Group: Animals & nature · Subgroup: Animal mammal · Emoji 1

Keywords

alpha
animal
face
Leo
lion
mane
order
rawr
leo
roar
safari
strong

About this character

lion belongs to the Animals & nature group and is encoded at U+1F981. It was added in Unicode 1.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1F981
Hex: 1F981
Decimal: 129409
HTML: 🦁
CSS: \1F981
JavaScript: \u{1F981}
Python: \U0001F981
UTF-8: F0 9F A6 81

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

monkey face U+1F435 Similar
monkey U+1F412 Similar
gorilla U+1F98D Similar
orangutan U+1F9A7 Similar
dog face U+1F436 Similar
dog U+1F415 Similar
guide dog U+1F9AE Similar
service dog U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA Similar
poodle U+1F429 Similar
wolf U+1F43A Similar
fox U+1F98A Similar
raccoon U+1F99D Similar
cat face U+1F431 Similar
cat U+1F408 Similar
black cat U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B Similar
tiger face U+1F42F Similar
tiger U+1F405 Similar
leopard U+1F406 Similar
horse face U+1F434 Similar
moose U+1FACE Similar
donkey U+1FACF Similar
horse U+1F40E Similar
unicorn U+1F984 Similar
zebra U+1F993 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.