CLDR, Unicode's search word list, gives Unicorn, U+1F984, two words, face and unicorn: not horse, not magic, not even animal. Press Copy for it. Unicorn emoji copy and paste adds horn characters, text unicorns like <}:-) and 13 combos.
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Glitter, pegasus and narwhal all answer
Search glitter and Glowing star and Mirror ball answer. Pegasus finds Winged unicorn, and narwhal finds three tiles, one of them plain ASCII, though CLDR files no emoji under either word. A blessing, Wiktionary's collective noun, is five unicorns in one tap.
A bird and a fire, joined
Unicorn is labelled Emoji 1.0. Phoenix, from Emoji 15.1, is the newest tile and is a bird and a fire joined: where the join fails, both arrive. <}:-) is plain ASCII. The Linear B horn, the Phaistos Disc horn and the hieroglyph need a font that has them.
Tips
Of 66 mammal emoji, three lack CLDR's word animal: Unicorn, Sloth and Paw prints. Search animal: no unicorn.
ฦฐ is Latin small letter u with horn by its Unicode name: a Vietnamese letter, and plain text.
็จ่ง็ธ, the Mandarin word, is three characters: lone, horn, beast. ่ง alone is horn and has its own tile.
Questions and answers
Is the unicorn Scotland's national animal?
Yes, by Wikipedia, and on the royal arms since 1603 the unicorn is Scotland and the lion England. The combo National animal of Scotland pairs Scotland's flag, seven code points, with the unicorn, which is one. aon-adharcach is the Scottish Gaelic word.
When was the unicorn emoji added?
In Unicode 8.0, released on 17 June 2015. Crab, Lion, Scorpion, Turkey and Unicorn arrived together at U+1F980 to U+1F984, and Unicode's emoji list labels all five Emoji 1.0.
Is there a unicorn symbol that is not an emoji?
Not by name: U+1F984 is the only character with unicorn in its Unicode name. ๅป is a Han character that Unihan defines as unicorn, ้บ is the female of the Chinese unicorn, and ฦฐ is officially u with horn.
Is there a narwhal or pegasus emoji?
No. CLDR files no emoji under narwhal or pegasus, and no Unicode character is named after either. Narwhal, the long way and Winged unicorn are the stand-ins, and ---<o)))>< is a text narwhal.
๐ Carousel horseU+1F3A0. The fourth and last emoji filed under horse. Unicode shelves it with places, not animals. Emoji 0.6.
๐GoatU+1F410. European art, by Wikipedia, gives the unicorn a horse's or a goat's body, split hooves and now and then a goat's beard. Emoji 1.0.
๐HorseU+1F40E. One place before Unicorn in Unicode's list. CLDR files four emoji under horse, and the unicorn is not one of them. Emoji 0.6.
๐ดHorse faceU+1F434. The same pose with one part fewer. Filed under dressage and equine. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฆLionU+1F981. By Wikipedia, old belief made the lion and the unicorn natural enemies. CLDR files this one under rawr. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฆUnicornU+1F984. Two search words in CLDR, face and unicorn: not horse, not magic, not animal. Its formal Unicode name is Unicorn face. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฆZebraU+1F993. One place after it. Three search words: animal, stripe and zebra. Emoji 5.0.
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Where CLDR files the magic instead 7
๐ฎCrystal ballU+1F52E. Filed under fantasy, fairytale and magic: three words the unicorn gets none of. Emoji 0.6.
๐DragonU+1F409. Filed under fairytale, and under animal. The unicorn is filed under neither. Emoji 1.0.
๐งFairyU+1F9DA. Filed under myth and fantasy. CLDR files Santa Claus, the troll and an orange book under fantasy too, and not the unicorn. Emoji 5.0.
๐ชMagic wandU+1FA84. Filed under magic, wizard and witch. Emoji 13.0.
๐ฆโ๐ฅPhoenixU+1F426 U+200D U+1F525. Filed under fantasy. It is Bird and Fire joined: where the join fails, a bird and a fire arrive. Emoji 15.1.
โจSparklesU+2728. Filed under magic, which the unicorn is not. It shares the word with Crystal ball, Magic wand, Top hat, mages and elves. Emoji 0.6.
๐ชฝWingU+1FABD. The only emoji CLDR files under mythology. See Winged unicorn below. Emoji 15.0.
One horn, by other means 5
๐ฆฃMammothU+1F9A3. The only emoji CLDR files under tusk. Emoji 13.0.
๐ฅณPartying faceU+1F973. Filed under horn because its formal Unicode name is Face with party horn and party hat. Also under birthday and hooray. Emoji 11.0.
๐ฏPostal hornU+1F4EF. One of two emoji CLDR files under horn. The other is Partying face. Emoji 1.0.
๐ฆRhinocerosU+1F98F. The Indian rhinoceros is Rhinoceros unicornis, named by Linnaeus in 1758. Wikipedia on Marco Polo's unicorn: it is clear he was describing a rhinoceros. Emoji 3.0.
๐WhaleU+1F40B. No emoji is filed under narwhal, so Whale stands in. The male's spiralled tusk, says Wikipedia, is a left canine 1.5 to 3 m long. Emoji 1.0.
Rainbow and glitter 4
๐Glowing starU+1F31F. The only emoji CLDR files under glittery. Also under sparkle and shining. Emoji 0.6.
๐ชฉMirror ballU+1FAA9. The only emoji CLDR files under glitter. Emoji 14.0.
๐ฉทPink heartU+1FA77. One of two emoji filed under pink. New enough to check where it is going. Emoji 15.0.
๐RainbowU+1F308. Filed under rain and weather. The unicorn is not filed under rainbow, and the rainbow is not filed under unicorn. They meet in The full kit. Emoji 0.6.
Unicorns and horns that are not emoji 7
๐ดGazelle, one horn visibleU+130F4 Egyptian hieroglyph E029. Unicode's hieroglyph notes: a gazelle, standing, with one horn visible. A unicorn by camera angle. Added in Unicode 5.2.
่งHorn, the Han characterU+89D2 CJK unified ideograph-89D2. Horn, by Unihan, and also angle and corner. Jiao in Mandarin, tsuno in Japanese, 7 strokes. It is the middle of the Mandarin word for unicorn.
้บLin, of the qilinU+9E9F CJK unified ideograph-9E9F. Unihan: female of Chinese unicorn. Read lin, 23 strokes. Wikipedia calls the qilin one of the lin family of one-horned beasts.
๐ Linear B hornU+100A0 Linear b ideogram B151 horn. Unicode names it as a horn, singular. In Unicode since 4.0: an empty box means your font lacks it.
๐ฉPhaistos Disc hornU+101E9 Phaistos disc sign horn. One horn again, by its Unicode name. Added in Unicode 5.1, so it needs a font that has it.
ฦฐU with hornU+01B0 Latin small letter u with horn. That is its Unicode name. A Vietnamese letter, by Unicode's names list, and the nearest thing to a unicorn in the Latin alphabet.
ๅปUnicorn, in one Han characterU+5ECC CJK unified ideograph-5ECC. Unihan defines it with one word: unicorn. Read zhi in Mandarin, 13 strokes. An empty box means your font lacks it.
One-line text unicorns 8
<//////]A horn with spiralling grooves, plain ASCII
โ ห โง ๐ฆ โง ห โUnicorn in a sparkle frame
โฬChess knight plus Unicode's combining horn, as well as your font can seat it
๐ฆ ยท ยท ยท ๐ ยท ยท ยท ๐ฆDivider: two unicorns, a rainbow and dots
---<o)))><Text narwhal: the old ASCII fish with a tusk added
๐ด + ฦฐ = ๐ฆThe sum: horse face plus u with horn
Unicorn, spelled out 4
ฮผฮฟฮฝฯฮบฮตฯฮฟฯUnicorn in Greek (monokeros): one horn again
็จ่ง็ธUnicorn in Chinese (dujiaoshou): lone, horn, beast
aon-adharcachUnicorn in Scottish Gaelic, for the national animal
unicornisUnicorn in Latin: unus, one, plus cornu, horn
Unicorn combos 13
๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆA blessingUnicorn 5 times. Wiktionary's collective noun for a group of unicorns. Five in one tap.
๐ฆ๐๐ฆFighting for the crownLion, then crown, then unicorn. The nursery rhyme, Roud number 20170. On the royal arms since 1603, by Wikipedia, England is the lion and Scotland the unicorn.
๐๐ฆโจThe full kitRainbow, then unicorn, then sparkles. The three that travel together. CLDR files them under weather, face and magic, in that order.
๐ฆ๐MonocerosUnicorn, then milky way. A dim constellation that straddles the celestial equator, with Orion on its western side. Wikipedia dates its first certain appearance to a globe of 1612 or 1613.
๐๐ฆNarwhal, the long wayWhale, then unicorn. Unicode has no narwhal. By Wikipedia the male's spiralled tusk is a left canine, 1.5 to 3 m long.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฆNational animal of ScotlandFlag: Scotland, then unicorn. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn, by Wikipedia. The flag is seven code points. The animal is one.
1๏ธโฃ๐ฏOne horn, literallyKeycap: 1, then postal horn. The Latin is unus, one, plus cornu, horn, copied from a Greek word for having one horn, going by Wiktionary.
๐ฆ๐ฆQilin, or giraffeUnicorn, then giraffe. Korean and Japanese use the same word for the mythical qilin and for the giraffe, says Wikipedia. Wiktionary lists that word, kirin, under unicorn.
๐ฆด๐ฆSiberian unicornBone, then rhinoceros. A nickname for Elasmotherium, an extinct and very large rhinoceros. Wikipedia calls the link to the myth highly speculative.
๐๐ฐ๐ฆSold as unicorn hornWhale, then money bag, then unicorn. In medieval and Renaissance times, says Wikipedia, narwhal tusk was sometimes sold as unicorn horn. A Danish physician settled the matter in 1638.
๐ฆ๐๐ฐUnicorn, the business kindUnicorn, then chart increasing, then money bag. A startup valued at over US$1 billion, privately owned and not listed, by Wikipedia. CLDR files Money bag under billion.
๐ฆ๐ชฝWinged unicornUnicorn, then wing. A unicorn's horn on a horse with a Pegasus's feathered wings. Wikipedia also records pegacorn, unisus and unipeg.
๐งต๐ผ๏ธ๐ฆWoven around 1500Thread, then framed picture, then unicorn. Two sets, by Wikipedia: The Lady and the Unicorn, six tapestries at the Musรฉe de Cluny, Paris, and The Unicorn Tapestries, seven at The Cloisters, New York.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 23 emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Unicorn is U+1F984, formal name UNICORN FACE, the only entry of that file with unicorn in its name, printed after horse and before zebra in the animal-mammal subgroup. Of the 66 entries of that subgroup, three are not filed under animal by CLDR: unicorn, sloth and paw prints. U+1F980 to U+1F984 (crab, lion face, scorpion, turkey, unicorn face) have age 8.0 in DerivedAge.txt, and Unicode 8.0 was released on 17 June 2015 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/). Phoenix is U+1F426 U+200D U+1F525, bird and fire joined, listed in emoji-zwj-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-zwj-sequences.txt); that an unsupported joined sequence falls back to its separate emoji is from UTS #51, Unicode Emoji, version 18.0, section 2.5 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/). The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR files the unicorn under face and unicorn only: not under animal, horse, horn, rainbow, magic, myth, mythology, fantasy, fairy, fairytale or tale. It files horse racing, horse face, horse and carousel horse under horse; sparkles, crystal ball, magic wand, top hat, the mages and the elves under magic; both dragons under fairytale; Santa Claus, troll, orange book, crystal ball, phoenix and fairy among those under fantasy; wing alone under mythology, mirror ball alone under glitter, glowing star alone under glittery, mammoth alone under tusk, partying face and postal horn under horn, pink heart and transgender flag under pink, money bag among those under billion; and no emoji under narwhal, pegasus, scotland, startup, constellation or tapestry. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. U+1F984 is the only character of UnicodeData.txt 18.0.0 with UNICORN in its name, and none is named after Pegasus, the narwhal, Monoceros or the qilin. That U+01B0 is LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH HORN, annotated Vietnamese, and U+031B COMBINING HORN, is from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/). The definitions of U+5ECC (unicorn; Mandarin zhi; 13 strokes), U+9E9F (female of Chinese unicorn; lin; 23 strokes), U+9E92 (legendary auspicious animal; qi), U+89D2 (horn; angle, corner; jiao; tsuno; 7 strokes), U+7368 (alone, single, solitary, only) and U+7378 (beast, animal) are from Unihan_Readings.txt and Unihan_IRGSources.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip); five characters have unicorn in their Unihan definitions. That U+130F4 is a gazelle, standing, with one horn visible is from Unikemet.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt); the ages of the Linear B ideograms (4.0), the Phaistos Disc signs (5.1) and the hieroglyphs (5.2) are from DerivedAge.txt. Wikipedia, Unicorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn): a creature of legend whose one horn is large, pointed and spiralled; European art draws it white, like a horse or a goat, with split hooves and now and then the beard of a goat; narwhal tusk sometimes sold as unicorn horn in medieval and Renaissance times, settled in 1638; held to be the lion's born enemy; Marco Polo was describing a rhinoceros. Wikipedia, Narwhal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal): males have a spiralled tusk 1.5 to 3.0 m long, a protruding left canine. Wikipedia, National symbols of Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_Scotland): Scotland's national animal is the unicorn. Wikipedia, The Lion and the Unicorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_and_the_Unicorn): supporters of the royal arms, England's lion and Scotland's unicorn, dating from the accession of 1603; the nursery rhyme, Roud Folk Song Index 20170, in which they were fighting for the crown. Wikipedia, Monoceros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoceros): a dim constellation that sits on the celestial equator, its name Greek for unicorn, bordered by Orion to the west, first certainly seen on a globe of 1612 or 1613. Wikipedia, Unicorn (finance) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)): a startup worth more than US$1 billion that is still in private hands, with no stock market listing. Wikipedia, Winged unicorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_unicorn): a unicorn's horn with the feathered wings of a Pegasus; also pegacorn, unisus and unipeg. Wikipedia, The Lady and the Unicorn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn): six tapestries from designs drawn in Paris around 1500, shown at the Musรฉe de Cluny. Wikipedia, The Unicorn Tapestries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_Tapestries): seven tapestries made around 1495 to 1505, kept today at The Cloisters, New York. Wikipedia, Indian rhinoceros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rhinoceros): Rhinoceros unicornis, the name used by Linnaeus in 1758. Wikipedia, Elasmotherium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmotherium): a genus of giant rhinoceros, now extinct, sometimes nicknamed the Siberian unicorn, the evidence for the link to the myth highly speculative. Wikipedia, Qilin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin): one of the lin family of one-horned beasts; Korean and Japanese use one word for both the giraffe and the beast of myth. The word unicorn in Latin, Greek, Scottish Gaelic and Mandarin, the Japanese kirin, and the etymology (Latin unus, one, plus cornu, horn, a calque of a Greek word for having one horn) are from Wiktionary's entry unicorn (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unicorn), the Latin without its macron; the Greek is romanised letter by letter from its Unicode names; blessing as the collective noun for unicorns is from Wiktionary's entry blessing (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blessing). The 7 characters, the 8 one-line drawings, the 4 words and the 13 combos are this site's own choice, the drawings are our own, and the combo names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.