🦎

Lizard Emoji 🦎

This one covers pretty much any small reptile — gecko, iguana, garden lizard, whatever's sunning itself on a warm wall — not one specific species. In text it gets borrowed most often for "lizard brain," the pop-psychology shorthand for raw instinct overriding calm, rational thought entirely.

What 🦎 means

This lizard has green, scaly skin, bulky black eyes, a pointy face, a long tail, and four short limbs ending in four- or five-digit hands with sticky tips.

The 🦎 Lizard emoji refers to a green garden lizard, but it can be used to suggest other species as well. This emoji signifies a sense of being clingy, sticky, crawly, abundant (coz there are LOADS of them out there) and maybe even creepy (actually, very, very creepy).

How and when to use it

If someone's being a little too clingy, you can use 🦎 in that conversation; like "Bro. Stop it. Ugh 🦎".
🦎 is a great way to freak someone out on text (unless the person is a reptile lover, of course). Just drop in this emoji to create a temporary air of silence and utmost discomfort for whatever reason it may be.
If you love lizards or you find this crawly creature to be your spirit animal, feel free to express this niche interest with a 🦎 in your social media profile name.
Did you just see the most beautiful lizard? Did you manage to procure some amazing shots of the little (or big) guy? Use 🦎 in the captions if you're posting such photography or videography on social media.
Were you just chilling at home and you encountered this harmlessly creepy creature? Are you ranting about it to someone via text? Then, use 🦎 if you're too uncomfortable to type the name.

Other Names

🦎 Gecko
🦎 Pest
🦎 Crawly
🦎 Wall Crawler
🦎 Reptile
🦎 House Lizard
🦎 Monitor Lizard

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › animal-reptile
Codepoints: U+1F98E
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :lizard:
Keywords: animal, lizard, reptile

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.