🐉 Dragon

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Emoji Meaning

1

A left-facing dragon with a sinuous, coiled body and horned crest — a striking icon often used to evoke magic.

2

This is the full-body version of the dragon emoji, showing paws and a tail. It resembles a huge snake with legs — an oriental-style dragon complete with horns and a spiny crest along its back.

In chats, this emoji is used to evoke a mythic creature — perfect when talking about Eastern legends or folklore. Dragons also play a central role in many Chinese celebrations, especially the Lunar New Year.

Apple Name

  • 🐉 Dragon

Unicode Name

  • 🐉 Dragon

🐉 Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+1F409

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %F0%9F%90%89
Punycode xn--0n8h
Bytes (UTF-8) F0 9F 90 89
JavaScript, JSON, Java \uD83D\uDC09
C, C++, Python \U0001f409
CSS \01F409
PHP, Ruby \u{1F409}
Perl \x{1F409}
HTML hex 🐉
HTML dec 🐉

Tags: dragon, fairy tale

Category: Animals & Nature

Subgroup: Reptiles & amphibians