🐕 Dog

Emoji Meaning

A dog, a faithful, beloved pet canine. Depicted as a light-brown dog, of various breeds, in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long, curled tail held upright and pointed or floppy ears.

Apple and Facebook’s dogs resemble a reddish-brown Shiba Inu, a popular Japanese breed featured in the Doge meme. Google shows what appears to be a Beagle.

See also 🐩 Poodle and 🐶 Dog Face, whose applications may overlap. Some vendors implement the same or a similar dog in their 🦮 Guide Dog and 🐕‍🦺 Service Dog.

One of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Google and Facebook previously featured puppies with collars, Apple’s dog previously resembled an Akita Inu, another popular Japanese breed.

Dog was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.