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

&#xD83E;&#xDDAE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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