What does 🦮 Guide Dog mean?
A dog in a stiff harness with a handle, the kind that guides people who are blind or have low vision. It comes up in conversations about guide dogs, accessibility, training charities and puppy-raising programmes, where volunteers often share progress with it. Unlike 🐕🦺, which shows a dog in a general service vest, this one points specifically to guiding. It arrived in 2019 as part of a wider set of accessibility emojis.
🦮 Guide Dog is an emoji from the Animals & Nature category (mammals), added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. People use it in messages about accessibility, animal and blind.
Example messages
🦮 Guide Dog on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Guide Dog looks on each platform.
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Guide Dog emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Guide Dog emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🦮 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :guide_dog:.
When was the Guide Dog emoji added?
🦮 Guide Dog was added in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🦮 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Guide Dog. The underlying code (U+1F9AE) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.