U+1F436 · emoji since 2010
The dog face is the internet's best friend. It stands in for your actual dog, dogs you met once, and dogs you saw from a car window and still think about.
It radiates loyalty and good boy energy, which also makes it shorthand for affection and trust between people. Who's a good emoji? This one.
In texting, 🐶 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🐶 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Dog Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the dog face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🐶 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.