Service dog emoji 🐕🦺
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA
What 🐕🦺 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Service dog 🐕🦺 is tagged with these keywords: accessibility, animal, assistance, dog, service.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing accessibility or animal in the emoji search brings up 🐕🦺.
Service dog 🐕🦺 is one of 66 emoji in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to 🐩 🐺 🦊 🦝.
Will 🐕🦺 show on my friend's phone?
🐕🦺 was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
What 🐕🦺 is made of
Technically 🐕🦺 is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🐕 dog + 🦺 safety vest. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🐕🦺
Any emoji picker finds 🐕🦺 when you search for service dog.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type service dog.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type service dog in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type service dog.
Codes for developers
Service dog 🐕🦺 is written with 3 code points: U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA. In UTF-8 it takes 11 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐕‍🦺 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐕‍🦺 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F415 \200D \1F9BA"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F415}\u200D\u{1F9BA} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%95%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%BA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 95 E2 80 8D F0 9F A6 BA |
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 | service dog |
| Português | cão de serviço |
| Español | perro de servicio |
| Italiano | cane da assistenza |
| Français | chien d’assistance |
| Deutsch | Assistenzhund |
| Türkçe | yardımcı köpek |
| Bahasa Indonesia | anjing pembimbing |
| Polski | pies pomocnik |
| Русский | служебная собака |
| 日本語 | 介助犬 |
| 한국어 | 보조견 |
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All animals & nature emoji →Questions people ask
What does the service dog emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🐕🦺 "service dog" and links it with accessibility, animal, assistance, dog. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the service dog emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
Why does 🐕🦺 sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of 🐕 + 🦺 joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.