🦁 Meaning – Lion Face Emoji

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The image of a lion’s head that looks similar to a stuffed animal is the emoji symbol for cuteness or ferociousness, depending on context. It can refer to a toy and due to its cute aspect it can refer to an animal or object that looks fluffy. Lion Face Emoji can mean “Chow-chows are like lions! They’re so fluffy!”.

The Lion Face Emoji appeared in 2015, and also known as the Lions Face. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Face of a Lion.

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Lion Face Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F981
Unicode name: Lion Face
Category: Animals & Nature / Mammals
Keywords: face, zodiac, animal
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F981
Decimal HTML Entity: 🦁
Hex HTML Entity: 🦁
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83E 0xDD81
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion
Version: Unicode 8.0
Year: 2015 (see all emoji of 2015)

🌐 Lion Face Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Löwengesicht	Gesicht, Löwe, Sternzeichen, Tierkreis
Français	tête de lion	animal, lion
Русский	морда льва	грива, знак зодиака, лев, морда
Español	cara de león	cara, leo, león, zodiaco
Italiano	muso di leone	faccina, leone, segno zodiacale
Português	rosto de leão	animal, leão, Leão, rosto, zodíaco
Polski	głowa lwa	buźka, grzywa, lew, pysk

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How to type Lion Face Emoji

There are number of methods to type Lion Face Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🦁 emoji

It's very easy to get Lion Face Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🦁 meaning and look at 🦁 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🦁 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.