Expressing bravery, courage, or strong leadership
Expressing bravery, courage, or strong leadership.
Animals & Nature
🦁 Lion Emoji
The 🦁 Lion emoji depicts a lion head with a mane, commonly used for lions, courage, strength, leadership, or Leo zodiac signs.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Lion
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Animal Mammal
- Unicode
- U+1F981
- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🦁 Lion emoji depicts the king of the jungle. It is widely used to express bravery, strong leadership, pride, or celebrating the astrological sign Leo.
Tone
BraveRegalStrongConfident
Quick Meaning
The 🦁 Lion emoji depicts a lion head with a mane, commonly used for lions, courage, strength, leadership, or Leo zodiac signs.
Use Cases
How People Use 🦁
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Sharing Leo season birthday wishes
Sharing Leo season birthday wishes.
Posting about African wildlife and big cats
Posting about African wildlife and big cats.
Real Messages
🦁 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🦁.
“Be brave and stand strong 🦁”
“Happy Leo season to all the Leos 🦁 ♌”
“Incredible lion sighting on safari 🦁”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.
Official Name
Lion
Subcategory: Animal MammalAliases & Common Names
- lion face
- king of the jungle
- leo lion
Keywords & Search Terms
- lion
- lion face
- king
- courage
- brave
- leo
- zodiac
- wildlife
- animal
Developer Reference
🦁 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F981Code points
U+1F981UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x81UTF-16
\uD83E\uDD81HTML decimal entity
🦁HTML hexadecimal entity
🦁JavaScript escape
\u{1F981}CSS escape
\1F981 Python string
\U0001F981Emoji Styles
See 🦁 in Different Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
Why do emoji designs look different?
Unicode defines the emoji character or sequence, while each artwork set decides how it is drawn. That is why the same emoji can look different between devices, apps, and design systems.
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FAQ
Questions About 🦁
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🦁 Lion emoji depicts a lion head with a mane, commonly used for lions, courage, strength, leadership, or Leo zodiac signs.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
🦁 represents Lion. It is used for wildlife, nature discussions, pets, and symbolic messaging.
The Unicode code point for 🦁 is U+1F981.
🦁 is usually the more general choice. 🐯 Tiger Face is different because represents a striped tiger face.
Use the copy button on this page to copy 🦁, or select the emoji character directly and copy it from your browser.