| Emoji | 🦮 |
| Name | guide dog |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F9AE |
| Category | Animals & Nature |
| Subcategory | Animal Mammal |
| Emoji Version | 12 |
| Tags | accessibility, animal, blind, dog, guide |
| Decimal Value | 129454 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F9AE |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🦮 / 🦮 |
The guide dog emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).
Category context: The Animals & Nature category spans wildlife, pets, insects, marine life, plants, and weather — among the most globally recognizable and culturally neutral emoji, since animals and nature are common reference points across languages.
Cataloged under Animal Mammal within the Animals & Nature category, guide dog is the 103rd of 160 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 12 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F9AE.
💡 Good to know: Animal emoji are frequently used figuratively rather than literally — for example, associating a person's behavior with a particular animal's stereotype in casual conversation.
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The guide dog emoji is Unicode U+1F9AE.
The guide dog emoji represents an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon, commonly used literally (talking about the actual animal or plant) or figuratively as a personality/mood reference (many animals carry informal symbolic associations in casual conversation).