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🐕🦺Service Dog Emoji
🐕🦺 service dog is encoded at U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA and shipped with Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unicode files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals, alongside 65 related emojis.
What 🐕🦺 service dog means
Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
Unicode tags this one accessibility, animal and assistance and files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🐕🦺 is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
- 🐕U+1F415dog
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- 🦺U+1F9BAsafety vest
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐕‍🦺 | |
| HTML decimal | 🐕‍🦺 | |
| CSS | \1F415\200D\1F9BA | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F415}\u{200D}\u{1F9BA} | |
| Python | \U0001F415\U0000200D\U0001F9BA | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC15\u200D\uD83E\uDDBA | |
| Rust | \u{1f415}\u{200d}\u{1f9ba} | |
| Swift | \u{1F415}\u{200D}\u{1F9BA} | |
| PHP | \u{1F415}\u{200D}\u{1F9BA} | |
| URL encoded | %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 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC15 200D D83E DDBA | |
| Base64 | 8J+QleKAjfCfpro= | |
| Decimal | 128021 8205 129466 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🐕🦺
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “service dog”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “accessibility”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f415and Enter. - HTML — paste
🐕‍🦺.
How 🐕🦺 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🐕🦺Apple
- 🐕🦺Segoe
- 🐕🦺Noto
- 🐕🦺System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🐕🦺 service dog emoji mean?+
🐕🦺 is the service dog emoji, tagged accessibility, animal and assistance. Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🐕🦺?+
service dog is U+1F415 U+200D U+1F9BA. In HTML that is 🐕‍🦺, in CSS \1F415\200D\1F9BA, and in JavaScript \u{1F415}\u{200D}\u{1F9BA}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐕🦺 emoji added?+
service dog got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Mammals in Animals & Nature.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐕🦺 service dog.