A guide (or Seeing Eye) dog, 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 ?? Service Dog, though their popular applications may overlap.
Twitter implements the same dog as its ? Dog. Samsung and Twitter’s guide dogs have green harnesses.
Guide Dog was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
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