U+1F436 "🐶" Dog Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐶
U+1F436 "🐶" Dog Face is a pictographic representation of a friendly, cartoon style dog head, typically depicted with floppy ears, a black nose, and a cheerful expression, and it belongs to the Emoji block within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane. Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this character is widely used across digital platforms to signify dogs, pets, loyalty, playfulness, or general affection for animals, often appearing in text messages and social media as an accessible and universally understood symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F436 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Dog Face |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F436 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc36 |