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🐕 Dog

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🐕 Emoji meaning

Friendship, loving dogs, going on walks, protection, and staying alert.

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🐕 Meaning

I need to walk the dog! May also mean a barking dog never bites or someone feels dog-tired. The dog is man’s best friend and stands for unconditional love, obedience, reliability and loyalty.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Dog

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Dog face vs full dog; both generic dog representations.

ZWJ Sequence

Dog

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Dog vs service dog; harness detail can be tiny, both just read as ‘dog’ in many cases.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Dog” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + animals + dogs

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ dog

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ pet

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