🐶 Meaning – Dog Face Emoji

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This emoji with a face of the dog is usually utilized to express eagerness, obedience or cuteness. Besides the actual meaning of a pet, a person might want to emphasize that he is "faithful like a dog" or to tell a person that he is "as clever as a dog". Dog Face Emoji can be used in various situations depending on context.

The Dog Face Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Dog Symbol.

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Dog Face Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F436
Unicode name: Dog Face
Category: Animals & Nature / Mammals
Keywords: face, pet, animal
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F436
Decimal HTML Entity: 🐶
Hex HTML Entity: 🐶
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDC36
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Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🌐 Dog Face Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Hundegesicht	Gesicht, Hund, Tier
Français	tête de chien	animal, chien
Русский	морда собаки	животное, морда, собака
Español	cara de perro	animal, cara, perro
Italiano	muso di cane	animale, cane, faccina
Português	rosto de cachorro	animal, cachorro, rosto
Polski	głowa psa	pies, psiaczek, pysk, pyszczek

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How to type Dog Face Emoji

There are number of methods to type Dog Face Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🐶 emoji

It's very easy to get Dog Face Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🐶 meaning and look at 🐶 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🐶 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.