Dragon

🐉 Dragon is one of the reptiles in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. People send it when the subject is animal, fairy, fairytale and knights. The keyword list continues with tale.

🐉 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. Added in 2015 with Emoji 1.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F409.

• 🐉 on its own already flags the topic: animal.
• Fits messages about animal, fairy, fairytale and knights.
• Often seen near 🐍 Snake, 🐲 Dragon Face and 🦕 Sauropod.

The dragon is the clearest case of opposed symbolism there is. In Europe it is a monster for knights to slay – Siegfried, Saint George. In China, by contrast, the lóng is a benevolent being, master of water and rain, for centuries the emblem of the emperor and still a sign of strength and fortune.

In the Chinese zodiac the Year of the Dragon is the most sought-after: birth rates measurably rise in several East Asian countries during dragon years.

• 🐉🐢 – Dragon and Turtle
• 🐉🐍 – Dragon with Snake
• 🐉🐲 – Dragon plus Dragon Face
• 🐉🐊 – Dragon and Crocodile
• 🐉🦎 – Dragon with Lizard
• 🐉🦖 – Dragon plus T-Rex
• 🐉🦕 – Dragon and Sauropod

Easy to mix up with 🐍 Snake, 🐲 Dragon Face or 🦕 Sauropod. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.