Lion Emoji
What does the Lion emoji mean?
A lion’s face staring straight ahead, rendered in warm golden yellow with a rich brown mane. Its calm, neutral expression conveys strength and courage, befitting an animal long regarded as the king of the jungle.
This is a cartoon depiction of a lion’s face — the largest member of the felidae family. The emoji is rendered in warm brown and orange tones, with a mane framing the sides of its muzzle. The face is shown full-on, looking straight at the viewer.
The smiling lion works in many contexts: users might talk about lion migration, behavior in zoos, population numbers, and more. Figuratively, it can represent a team name or mascot, or convey character traits like courage, strength, superiority.
Apple Name
- 🦁 Lion Face
Unicode Name
- 🦁 Lion Face
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Lion emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦁 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F981
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Slack, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%81 |
| Punycode | xn--0s9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 81 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD81 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f981 |
| CSS | \01F981 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F981} |
| Perl | \x{1F981} |
| HTML hex | 🦁 |
| HTML dec | 🦁 |
Tags: face, Leo, lion, zodiac, alpha, animal, mane, order, rawr, roar, safari, strong
Category: Animals & Nature
Subgroup: Mammals