U+1F981 "🦁" Lion Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦁
U+1F981 "🦁" Lion Face is a graphic symbol representing the head of a lion, typically depicted facing forward with a full mane in a yellow or golden color. Introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of the Emoji 1.0 standard, it is commonly used in digital communication to convey ideas of courage, royalty, strength, or the animal itself, and is distinct from the similar but differently colored tiger face emoji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F981 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Lion Face |
| Block | Supplemental 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 0xA6 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F981 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd81 |