Dog face emoji 🐶
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F436
What 🐶 means
Dog face 🐶 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: adorbs, animal, dog, face, pet, puppies, puppy.
Those words also drive emoji search: try adorbs or animal on your phone to find 🐶.
On the emoji keyboard, 🐶 sits with the mammals (66 emoji) inside animals & nature, which has 161 emoji, for example 🐕 🦮 🐕🦺 🐩.
Will 🐶 show on my friend's phone?
🐶 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 🐶
To find 🐶 quickly, type dog face into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type dog face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type dog face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type dog face.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🐶 as one code point, U+1F436: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F436 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐶 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐶 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F436"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F436} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%B6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 B6 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🐶 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | dog face |
| Português | rosto de cachorro |
| Español | cara de perro |
| Italiano | muso di cane |
| Français | tête de chien |
| Deutsch | Hundegesicht |
| Türkçe | köpek yüzü |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah anjing |
| Polski | głowa psa |
| Русский | морда собаки |
| 日本語 | イヌの顔 |
| 한국어 | 강아지 얼굴 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the dog face emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐶 "dog face" and links it with adorbs, animal, dog, face. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the dog face emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the dog face emoji?
To find 🐶 quickly, type dog face into the emoji search.