U+1F409 "🐉" Dragon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐉
U+1F409 "🐉" Dragon is a pictographic representation of a dragon, a legendary creature often depicted as a large, serpentine being with scales, claws, and wings, and is deeply rooted in the mythology and folklore of various cultures, most notably in East Asian traditions where it symbolizes power, strength, and good fortune. In Unicode, this character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is commonly used in digital communication to represent mythical beasts, the Chinese zodiac sign for those born in the Year of the Dragon, or themes of fantasy and adventure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F409 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Dragon |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F409 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc09 |