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 Microsoft
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-mammal
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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