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A dog, a faithful, beloved pet canine. Depicted as a light-brown dog, of various breeds, in full profile on all fours facing left, with a long, curled tail held upright and pointed or floppy ears.

Apple and Facebook&rsquo;s dogs resemble a reddish-brown <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu">Shiba Inu</a>, a popular Japanese breed featured in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)">Doge meme</a>. Google shows what appears to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle">Beagle</a>.

See also <a href="/poodle/">🐩 Poodle</a> and <a href="/dog-face/">🐶 Dog Face</a>, whose applications may overlap. Some vendors implement the same or a similar dog in their&nbsp;<a href="/guide-dog/">🦮 Guide Dog</a> and<a href="/service-dog/"> 🐕&zwj;🦺 Service Dog</a>.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/" title="🐉 Chinese New Year">Chinese zodiac</a>.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/dog/">Google</a> and <a href="/facebook/2.0/dog/">Facebook</a> previously featured puppies with collars, Apple&rsquo;s dog <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/dog/">previously</a> resembled an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita_(dog)">Akita Inu</a>, another popular Japanese breed.

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

An orange safety vest with reflective lines across the chest and&nbsp;over the shoulders.

Used in the <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a> <a href="/service-dog/">🐕&zwj;🦺 Service Dog</a>, which was approved at the same time.&nbsp;A safety vest can also be seen in the designs of <a href="/construction-worker/">👷 Construction Worker</a> on multiple&nbsp;platforms.

Safety Vest

A service animal displayed with a safety vest and lead. Differs from the guide dog as this animal is intended&nbsp;for detection of seizures or other &ldquo;hidden disabilities&rdquo;, according to the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-proposes-new-accessibility-emojis/">proposal from Apple</a>.

12.0

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_dog">guide (or Seeing Eye) dog</a>, trained to help lead a person who is blind or visually impaired. Generally depicted as a yellowish-brown Labrador Retriever on all fours facing left, equipped with a harness and handle. Many platforms additionally include a collar.

Not to be confused with <a href="/service-dog/">🐕&zwj;🦺 Service Dog</a>, though their popular applications may overlap.

Twitter implements the same dog as its <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>. Samsung and Twitter&rsquo;s guide dogs have green harnesses.

Guide Dog

A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a dog, looking straight ahead. Depicted as the face of a dog of various breeds, generally light-brown and white, with pointed or floppy ears and its tongue hanging out.

May be used with a more playful tone than the full-bodied <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>, though their applications generally overlap. See also <a href="/poodle/">🐩 Poodle</a>.

One of the 12 animals of the <a href="/chinese-new-year/">Chinese zodiac</a>. Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Many vendors implement the same or similar dog as their full-bodied <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>, such as Google and Facebook. Apple&nbsp;and WhatsApp&rsquo;s dogs have a white face with brown, floppy ears and a brown patch over one eye.

Included in the earliest Japanese emoji sets from <a href="/softbank/1997/dog-face/">Softbank</a>, <a href="/docomo/1999/dog-face/">Docomo</a>, and <a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/dog-face/">au by KDDI</a>.

Dog Face

A pair of paw prints, as left by a pet <a href="/cat/">🐈 cat</a> or <a href="/dog/">🐕 dog</a>. Generally depicted as two, staggered, dark-colored paw prints, each showing four toes and a pad.

Commonly used for various content concerning pet cats and dogs. Occasionally applied to other quadruped mammals. See also <a href="/footprints/">👣 Footprints</a>.

<a href="/apple/ios-6.0/paw-prints/">Apple</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/paw-prints/">Google</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/paw-prints/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> prints were previously red, while <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/paw-prints/">Microsoft&rsquo;s</a> were orange. Facebook&#39;s earliest design&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/1.0/paw-prints/">originally</a> displayed human footprints.

Paw Prints

A man using a <a href="/white-cane">white cane</a>&nbsp;as a mobility aid, presumably due to them being blind or visually impaired.

Man with White Cane

A woman using a <a href="/white-cane">white cane</a>&nbsp;as a mobility aid, presumably due to them being blind or visually impaired.

Woman with White Cane

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cane">white cane</a>, used by some people who are blind or visually impaired. The cane has a black or gray handle with a wrist loop, a white middle section, and a red end with a white cap. This cane differs from a support cane and is sometimes called a probing cane.

<a href="/woman-with-white-cane/">👩&zwj;🦯 Woman With Probing Cane</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/man-with-white-cane/">👨&zwj;🦯 Man With Probing Cane</a>&nbsp;are ZWJ sequences that use White Cane.

Probing Cane

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poodle">poodle</a>, a popular dog breed with curly hair, often groomed in an ornamental pattern.

Generally depicted as a grayish-white poodle in full profile on all fours facing left, with a shaved torso, legs, and face with fuller, pom-pom-like hair on its head, ears, chest, feet, and tip of tail (as the <a href="https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/poodle-standard/">Continental Clip</a>).

Like <a href="/dog/">🐕 Dog</a>, may be used to represent a variety of dog breeds (often fluffy or long-haired). See also <a href="/dog-face/">🐶 Dog Face</a>.

<a href="/google/android-7.0/poodle/">Google</a>, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/poodle/">Samsung</a>, and <a href="/facebook/2.0/poodle/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> designs previously featured pink poodles.

Poodle

A person using a <a href="/white-cane">white cane</a>&nbsp;as a mobility aid, presumably due to them being blind or visually impaired.

Person with White Cane

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

WhatsApp has its own emoji designs which are displayed on all WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp Web.

One emoji supported by WhatsApp but no other platform is the&nbsp;<a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>. This is a valid subdivision flag supported by Unicode, but not listed within any Unicode emoji release and as of 2019 is not supported by any other major vendors.

In 2021 WhatsApp introduced a&nbsp;<a href="/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation Flag</a> as a <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>. Like the <a href="/flag-for-texas-ustx/">Texas Flag emoji</a>, this&nbsp;flag is&nbsp;not supported by any other major vendors.

<img alt="" src="https://em-content.zobj.net/content/2017/12/13/whatsapp-web-emojis-2017.jpg" style="width: 100%;" />

Names and meanings of all the emojis in WhatsApp for iPhone, Web, Android and Windows and new WhatsApp emojis for Android. Browse the list of WhatsApp emojis here.

💬 WhatsApp Emoji Meanings — Emojis for WhatsApp on iPhone, Android and Web (Updated: February 2024)

A minor emoji update that changed the <a href="/racing-car">🏎️ Racing Car</a> emoji as part of a campaign by WhatsApp and the&nbsp;Mercedes-Benz F1 team.

2.24.8.85

Beginning rollout on 2024-02-02, WhatsApp&nbsp;2.23.2.72 debut support for a subset of 2023&#39;s <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendations.

Additionally, this update introduced gender-neutral designs for a series of people emojis that previously displayed a gendered appearance on the platform.&nbsp;

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2.24.2.76

Beginning rollout on 2023-01-11, WhatsApp 2.23.2.72&nbsp;debuted support for the 31 emojis recommended in September 2022&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>.

This update also changed the designs of the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/">🤓&nbsp;Nerd Face</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face/">🥺&nbsp;Pleading Face</a>, and the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/face-holding-back-tears/">🥹&nbsp;Face Holding Back Tears</a>&nbsp;emojis.

2.23.2.72

Released 2022-04-19, this update for WhatsApp on Android devices introduced support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> emojis such as <a href="/melting-face/">🫠&nbsp;Melting Face</a>, as well as&nbsp;multiple skin tone versions of the&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a>&nbsp;emoji.

2.22.8.79

Released 2021-11-25, this update introduced&nbsp;additional skin tone combinations&nbsp;for the<a href="/people-holding-hands/">🧑&zwj;🤝&zwj;🧑 People Holding Hands</a>&nbsp;emoji from late 2019&#39;s <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, as well as many different &nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏 Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑 Couple with Heart</a> skin tone combinations from late 2020&#39;s <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

However, this release did not update WhatsApp&#39;s native emoji keyboard to allow for access&nbsp;to these new emojis.

2.21.23.23

Released 2021-08-18,&nbsp;this update included partial support for <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>, with&nbsp;three&nbsp;new smiley emoji and two new heart emojis.

The update also introduced <a href="/woman-beard/">🧔&zwj;♀️&nbsp;Woman: Beard</a> and updated the design of&nbsp;<a href="/person-beard/">🧔 Person: Beard</a> to be more gender neutral. The update did not, however, provide support for&nbsp;<a href="/man-beard/">🧔&zwj;♂️ Man: Beard</a>&nbsp;or the new variations of&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>&nbsp;recommended in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

2.21.16.20

Released 2021-06-08, this update included a single new emoji: the <a href="/refugee-nation-flag/">Refugee Nation flag</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/whatsapps-new-refugee-nation-flag/">More about this new flag emoji.</a>

2.21.11.17

Released early December 2020, this update included 115&nbsp;new emojis from <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>.

2.20.206.24

Released early September&nbsp;2020, this update&nbsp;included 138&nbsp;new emojis. While all of these new emojis were from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>, this update&nbsp;did not include the 30&nbsp;people holding hands emoji variants also included within&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>.

2.20.198.15

WhatApp&#39;s major emoji update of 2019 which included support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. Included 230 <a href="/whatsapp/2.19.352/new/">new</a> emojis, plus some very minor tweaks to <a href="/whatsapp/2.19.352/changed/">three existing designs</a>.

2.19.352

WhatsApp introduced support for the middle finger emoji in mid-2015,&nbsp;prior to its support in iOS 9.1.

🐕‍🦺 Service Dog on WhatsApp 2.12

🐕‍🦺 Service Dog on WhatsApp 2.12

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