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animal-mammal
Lion
1F981 · U+1F981 · 🦁
What it means
The Lion emoji 🦁 is used around ideas like alpha, animal, face, Leo and lion.
Emoji render in the viewer’s own font, so the exact drawing differs between Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft — the sense above is what stays constant.
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Keywords
Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.
Details
| Hexa | 1F981 |
|---|---|
| Codepoints | U+1F981 |
| HTML (hex) | 🦁 |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦁 |
| CLDR short name | lion |
| Emoji version | Emoji 1.0 · 2015 → |
| Qualification | fully-qualified |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | animal-mammal |
Timeline
- Emoji 1.0 · 2015Lion entered the standard as U+1F981, establishing the codepoint still used today.
- TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.
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