🦁 Lion Emoji - Copy, Shortcode, Code Points

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Emoji details

lion

Copy 🦁 and explore its shortcode, Unicode code points, keywords, category, and related emojis.

Current style: System

About the lion emoji

The lion emoji 🦁 is commonly used for lion, roar, king, africa. It appears in Animals & Nature / Animal Mammal and helps add tone to messages, captions, reactions, and quick replies. Copy it directly, use the shortcode :lion:, or reference the Unicode code points U+1F981.

Meaning

The lion emoji 🦁 is commonly used for lion, roar, king, africa. It appears in Animals & Nature / Animal Mammal and helps add tone to messages, captions, reactions, and quick replies.

How to use

Use 🦁 when the message needs a clear "lion" signal.

Place 🦁 at the end of a sentence to make the tone warmer or more expressive.

Combine 🦁 with nearby emojis when you need a more specific reaction.

Common use cases

lionroarkingafricapridechat

Platform note

lion can look different across platforms. System uses the current device font, while Noto, Twemoji, Fluent, OpenMoji, and EmojiTwo come from their respective open-source emoji artwork sets.

Explore more

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lion details

Emoji🦁

Namelion

Shortcode:lion:

Code pointsU+1F981

Unicode version1.0

GroupAnimals & Nature

Subgroupanimal-mammal

Aliases

:roar::king::africa::pride::mane::safari:

Keywords

lionroarkingafricapridemanesafarisimba

Copy examples

Copy 🦁 when you want to say "lion".

Use 🦁 to make a message feel more expressive.

🦁 works well in quick replies, captions, and chats.

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