🦁 Lion emoji

Copy the 🦁 Lion emoji (U+1F981), an Animals & Nature emoji from Emoji 1.0 (2015). HTML 🦁 and CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: lion
Code point: U+1F981
Type: Single code point
Group: Animals & Nature
Subgroup: Animal mammal
Introduced: Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Keywords: alpha, animal, face, Leo, mane, order, rawr, roar, safari, strong, zodiac

About this emoji

🦁 Lion is an emoji in the Animals & Nature group, animal mammal subgroup, first released in Emoji 1.0 (2015).

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords alpha, animal, face, Leo, mane, order, rawr, roar, safari, strong and zodiac; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+1F981, named LION FACE in the Unicode standard.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`🦁`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`🦁`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\1F981";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\uD83E\uDD81"`Also valid in JSON. Characters above U+FFFF are written as a surrogate pair.
JavaScript (ES6)	`"\u{1F981}"`Code point escape; not valid in JSON.
Python	`"\U0001f981"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LION FACE}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%F0%9F%A6%81`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A6 81`4 bytes.
UTF-16	`D83E DD81`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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