Lion

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Shortcode
:lion:
Unicode
U+1F981
HTML
🦁
CSS
\1F981
JavaScript
"\u{1F981}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%81

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What ๐Ÿฆ means

A lion's face with a full mane. It stands for strength, courage, pride, and leadership: the king of the jungle.

Bravery, confidence, and big-cat energy are its core uses, and teams with lion mascots claim it. Astrology fans use it for Leo and Leo season next to โ™Œ, and with ๐Ÿ‘‘ it crowns someone the boss.

Facts

Lion ๐Ÿฆ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :lion:. People also look for it with words like โ€œLeoโ€, โ€œalphaโ€, โ€œanimalโ€, or โ€œfaceโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. lion, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. lion, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. lion, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. lion, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

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