U+1F415 · emoji since 2014
The dog is the full pup, tail up and trotting. It means dogs of every kind, loyalty, walkies, and humanity's best friend.
It tags dog park trips, adoption days, and every photo of a very good boy or girl doing absolutely nothing wrong.
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 emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the dog 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.