Dragon emoji 🐉
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F409
What 🐉 means
Dragon 🐉 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, fairy, fairytale, knights, tale.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or fairy on your phone to find 🐉.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐉 sits with the reptiles (8 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🦕 🦖 🐊 🐢.
Will 🐉 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), 🐉 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🐉
To find 🐉 quickly, type dragon into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type dragon.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type dragon in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type dragon.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐉 as one code point, U+1F409: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F409 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐉 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐉 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F409"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F409} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%89 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 89 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐉 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the dragon emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐉 "dragon" and links it with animal, fairy, fairytale, knights. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the reptiles subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the dragon emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the dragon emoji?
To find 🐉 quickly, type dragon into the emoji search.