Lizard emoji 🦎
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F98E
What 🦎 means
Lizard 🦎 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, reptile.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or reptile 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 3.0 (2016), 🦎 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🦎
To find 🦎 quickly, type lizard into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type lizard.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type lizard in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type lizard.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦎 as one code point, U+1F98E: 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+1F98E | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦎 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦎 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F98E"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F98E} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 8E |
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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What does the lizard emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦎 "lizard" and links it with animal, reptile. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the reptiles subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the lizard emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the lizard emoji?
To find 🦎 quickly, type lizard into the emoji search.