Guide Dog Emoji
What does the Guide Dog emoji mean?
A dog gazing to the left while wearing a harness with a metal handle. This image is typically used to indicate that a person needs a guide dog or has an impairment that requires one.
This is a version of the dog emoji showing a trained, four-legged helper. These dogs often serve as companions for people with physical disabilities—most commonly blind people—and retrievers are frequently chosen for the role. You can see a special harness with a handle on the dog's body; that's what a blind person holds onto. It's essentially a leash or guide handle.
Use this emoji literally when referring to a guide dog. Figuratively, it can stand for the need for direction or support.
Also Known As
- 🦮 Seeing Eye Dog
Apple Name
- 🦮 Guide Dog
Unicode Name
- 🦮 Guide Dog
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Guide Dog emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦮 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9AE
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%AE |
| Punycode | xn--bu9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 AE |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDAE |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9ae |
| CSS | \01F9AE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9AE} |
| Perl | \x{1F9AE} |
| HTML hex | 🦮 |
| HTML dec | 🦮 |
Tags: accessibility, blind, guide, guide dog, animal, dog
Category: Animals & Nature
Subgroup: Mammals