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 CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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.
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