🐲 Dragon face
🐲 Emoji meaning
This is gonna be legendary! Strength, myth, fantasy, Chinese New Year.
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🐲 Meaning
We’re celebrating the Chinese New Year. In myths, fairy tales and movies, the dragon is often a terrifying monster: scaly, with 4 legs, big wings and fire-breathing. Symbol for China and Chinese culture.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Dragon face vs alien monster; both monstrous heads used for enemies or bosses in games.
Dragon face vs snake; both scaly heads with open mouths that can represent dangerous reptiles.
Dragon vs dragon face; head vs full body, both representing dragons in fantasy contexts.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Dragon face” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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