What 🐕 means
🐕 is the dog emoji, filed under Animals & Nature in the animal-mammal subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 0.7 (2014) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). The characters therefore predate their emoji presentation by 4 years.
How it is encoded
🐕 is a single code point, U+1F415.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Don't confuse it with
2Combination ideas
2Treat or dinner time for the dog.
Heading out for a dog walk.
Worth knowing
- 🐕 can stand for the Dog sign of the Chinese zodiac; the most recent Year of the Dog was 2018.
Questions people ask
2Is the dog emoji an insult?
Not by default. A lone 🐕 reads as a dog; the context and words around it decide whether it becomes a jab.
What breed is 🐕?
None is set. Unicode names it just "dog", so the artwork differs from platform to platform.
How to type 🐕
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “dog”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “dog”.
Chat apps
:dog2:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🐕Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🐕
HTML hex
🐕
CSS content
content: "\1F415";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%90%95
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.