The dog face is pure “good boy” energy in a tiny circle: loyalty, playful curiosity, and those legendary puppy eyes that can get you to say yes to anything. People drop it when they’re begging for a favor, apologizing with maximum cute, or announcing walkies-level excitement about literally any plan. It also doubles as a gentle flirt—aka the “I’m innocent… unless?” vibe—especially when paired with the pleading 🥺 for the ultimate beg combo. In meme-speak, it’s the go-to for doggo/pupper discourse, zoomies recaps, and “boop the snoot” moments.
On Apple/iOS, the dog face looks like a friendly, front-facing beagle-esque pup: warm brown floppy ears, a creamy white muzzle, rounded black eyes, and a shiny button nose, all rendered in glossy 3D shading. No collar, no tongue-out chaos—just a neat, symmetrical portrait that screams “treats?” from a clean, centered angle. You’ll recognize the soft gradients, the subtle shadowing under the ears, and that mild, polite smile that says “I absolutely did not knock over the trash can (I did).”
Online, it’s used playfully and sarcastically: “Who, me?” after stirring drama, as a wholesome reply in pet-tax threads, or to soften bad news like “I’m late but I brought coffee 🐶.” It shows up in captions for shelter spotlights, dog mom/dad life, and throwbacks to the Snapchat dog-filter era. While Doge the meme is a Shiba, this emoji is more generic-beagle-coded—still perfect for wholesome memes, thirst-for-treats jokes, and best-friend energy across the timeline.
Definition
This little puppy has a brown patch over his eye. Adorable. Some may think food, others domestic animal.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
45 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:dog:
Keywords
Previous Names:
Dog, White and Brown Spotted
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Animal Faces
Names & Annotations
DOG FACE
Symbol Information
U+1F436 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1B7
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#100 'Dog' 犬 U+E6A1 SJIS-F945 JIS-763C
KDDI
#134 猟犬 U+E4E1 SJIS-F6BA JIS-763C
Softbank
#105 #old82 いぬ 「inu」 U+E052 SJIS-F993
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e052
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E052
Decimal Code Point(s)
57426
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x81 0x92
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 81 92
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 201 222
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE052
UTF-16 Hex
e052
UTF-16 Dec
57426
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E052
UTF-32 Hex
E052
UTF-32 Dec
57426
Python Src
u"\uE052"
PHP Src
"\xee\x81\x92"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE052"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🐶
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🐶
Decimal HTML Entity
🐶
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🐶
Hex Code Point(s)
1f436
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F436
Decimal Code Point(s)
128054
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xB6
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 90 B6
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 220 266
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC36
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc36
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56374
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F436
UTF-32 Hex
01F436
UTF-32 Dec
128054
Python Src
u"\U0001F436"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x90\xb6"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC36"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
