Guide dog

Guide dog Emoji

Animals

A golden-colored Labrador or Retriever wearing a professional harness and a handle used for guiding individuals. The dog is depicted standing in a alert, helpful posture.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent disability advocacy, service animals, and the daily assistance provided by canine companions. It serves as a visual shorthand for accessibility support and is frequently used alongside or 🦯 to signal inclusive environments or to talk about personal experience with visual impairment.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of the push for broader disability representation in digital communications. It was released to ensure that assistive technology tools and personal narratives were better reflected in the modern emoji library, expanding on existing animal icons like 🐕.

Details

Glyph
🦮
Unicode
U+1F9AE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ae:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-mammal
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Tags
guide doganimalblindaccessibilityeyeseeingservice dogdisabilityassistivesupport animallabrador

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.