A dog wearing a vest, made by joining ๐ and ๐ฆบ. It stands for service and assistance dogs that help people with disabilities.
Handlers and trainers use it for their working dogs, and others use it in posts about accessibility rights, therapy dogs, and puppies in training. It suits reminders that a service dog is on the job and should not be distracted.
Where the sequence is not supported, it can appear as ๐ and ๐ฆบ side by side.
Facts
Service dog ๐โ๐ฆบ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ dog and ๐ฆบ safety vest. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :service_dog:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โanimalโ, โassistanceโ, or โdogโ.