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Lizard emoji 🦎

🦎 is the lizard: a small green lizard, sometimes a gecko. It means lizards, geckos, chameleons and iguanas β€” pets, reptile houses, sunbathing on a rock β€” and β€œlizard…

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What the lizard 🦎 emoji means

🦎 is the lizard: a small green lizard, sometimes a gecko. It means lizards, geckos, chameleons and iguanas β€” pets, reptile houses, sunbathing on a rock β€” and β€œlizard brain” for instinct over thought. Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Its reptile relatives: 🐒 turtle, 🐊 crocodile, 🐍 snake and the prehistoric πŸ¦– dinosaur.

Unicode name: lizard Β· U+1F98E Β· Emoji 3.0 (2016) Β· group: Animals & Nature.

IN A MESSAGElizard brain says buy the shoes 🦎

How people use it

  • Reptiles and pets: geckos, iguanas
  • Sunbathing: basking like a lizard
  • Lizard brain: instincts
  • Chameleon: adapting, changing

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
lizardU+1F98ELizard, gecko
turtleU+1F422Turtle
crocodileU+1F40ACrocodile
snakeU+1F40DSnake
T-RexU+1F996Dinosaur

Questions people ask

Is there a gecko or chameleon emoji?

No; 🦎 lizard covers all of them.

What does 🦎 mean?

A lizard β€” reptiles, basking, or instinct (β€œlizard brain”).

When was 🦎 added?

2016, Emoji 3.0.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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