The dragon face emoji brings big mythic energy—a bold, front-and-center head that screams fantasy boss and festival vibes. People drop it for D&D nights, House of the Dragon hot takes, spicy-food flexes (“I breathe fire now”), and general “don’t poke the beast” moods. It shows up for Lunar New Year posts as an auspicious nod to the East Asian dragon, and for treasure-guarding jokes like “protecting my snacks like Smaug.” In texts, it ranges from playful intimidation to hype-mode swagger, sometimes even flirty when paired with a cocky caption.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy green, front-facing portrait: wide eyes, flared nostrils, red mouth, little whisker tendrils, and gold antler-like horns framed by an orange mane—more regal guardian than feral lizard. The expression reads confident-but-friendly, making it perfect for dramatic boasts without actual menace. You’ll often see it teamed with 🔥 for “breathing fire,” with 🧧 or 🐉 for Lunar New Year aesthetics, or alone as a quick badge of power, luck, and meme-worthy “dragon energy.” Used ironically, it’s the over-the-top “final boss” of emojis; used sincerely, it’s your green good-luck charm.
Definition
The head or face of a dragon. A dragon is a legendary creature found in some of the best mythologies and adventure stories told by humans. Dragons are presented in many different ways in stories, but generally they can fly, covet treasure, breath fire, and are extremely powerful, exceptionally dangerous and cunning. There is raw power in this emoji. People are wise to use this emoji sparingly.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
466 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:dragon_face:
Keywords
Dragon, Head, Fire, Legendary, Myth
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Names & Annotations
DRAGON FACE
Symbol Information
U+1F432 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1DE
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[辰]
KDDI
#749 辰 U+EB3F SJIS-F443 JIS-7B24
Softbank
[辰]
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🐲
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🐲
Decimal HTML Entity
🐲
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🐲
Hex Code Point(s)
1f432
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F432
Decimal Code Point(s)
128050
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xB2
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 B2
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 262
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC32
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc32
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56370
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F432
UTF-32 Hex
01F432
UTF-32 Dec
128050
Python Src
u"\U0001F432"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xb2"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC32"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
