These 69 dog kaomoji all have hanging ears: a capital U, a union sign, a triangle, or the soft pair ૮ and ა. Tap one and it is copied. Four need only a keyboard, U^x^U among them.
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Find a dog, tap it
Tap a tile and the face is on your clipboard. The groups go by what the dog is doing: looking at you, pleased to see you, one paw up, sad or asleep, barking, or showing more than its face. Soft ears keeps the ten drawn with ૮ and ა. Search reads the labels: fetch finds (・ω・)ﾉ⌒○ U^ェ^U, sausage finds ⊂ﾟＵ┬───┬~ and sniff finds U・ᴥ・U クンクン.
What the barks say
Wiktionary gives wanwan as the sound of a dog barking, woof-woof, and as baby talk for a dog. It is here in katakana and in hiragana. Kyankyan is the yap of a small dog, and kunkun is sniff-sniff.
Tips
Both common muzzles are named ain: ᴥ is Latin letter ain, U+1D25, in 33 faces; ﻌ is Arabic letter ain medial form, U+FECC, in 12.
The soft ears are a number and a letter: ૮ is Gujarati digit eight and ა is Georgian letter an.
The back of ⊂ﾟＵ┬───┬~ is box drawing characters. Paste it, add more ─, and the dog gets longer.
Questions and answers
What does U・ᴥ・U mean?
A dog looking at you. The two capital U are hanging ears, the dots are eyes and ᴥ is the muzzle. Swap the ears for ▼ and they turn dark; swap the muzzle for ェ or x and it still reads as a dog.
How do you type a dog face on a keyboard?
U^x^U: a capital U each side, two carets for eyes and an x for the muzzle. Search keyboard for the four typed that way. One is asleep, U-x-U zzz, and one is crying, U;x;U.
What is the difference between a dog and a bear kaomoji?
The ears. Both use ᴥ for a muzzle, so this site files a face by what is round it, and hanging ears make a dog. (ᵔᴥᵔ) has no ears, so it is not here; (ᵔᴥᵔʋ), with one, is.
Why does a dog show an empty box?
A character in it has no font on your device. 49 of the 69 borrow one from beyond the usual blocks, most often ᴥ, and the label under each says where. The Everyday characters chip leaves the 20 that borrow nothing.
U´ᗜ`U awooHowling, mouth open. Borrows ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
U・ᴥ・U woofWoof, spelled out. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions.
U・ᴥ・U クンクンKunkun, sniff sniff. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions.
U・ᴥ・U ワンワンWanwan, the Japanese woof-woof. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions.
More of the dog 9
(ᵔᴥᵔʋ)Head side on, a hooked v for the one ear. Borrows ᵔ ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions and ʋ from IPA Extensions.
(❍ᴥ❍ʋ)Side on, shadowed circles for eyes. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions and ʋ from IPA Extensions.
⊂ﾟＵ┬─────────┬~The same dog, three times the back
⊂ﾟＵ┬───┬~Sausage dog, side on, tail up
┬┴┬┴┤ᴥ・UHalf a face round the end of a fence. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions.
_(U-ᴥ-U」∠)_Flat on the floor after the walk. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions.
(・ω・)ﾉ~~~U^ェ^UOut for a walk, tildes for the lead
(・ω・)ﾉ⌒○ U^ェ^UFetch: an arc, and a ball on its way
ε=ε=┌U・ᴥ・U┘Running, puffs of dust behind. Borrows ᴥ from Phonetic Extensions.
Soft ears 10
૮ >ﻌ< აSoft ears, eyes scrunched. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ ^ ﻌ ^ აSoft ears, smiling eyes. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ ˘ ﻌ ˘ აSoft ears, eyes closed, being stroked. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ ˶• ﻌ •˶ აSoft ears, double accents for a blush. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ • ﻌ - აSoft ears, one eye shut. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ ≧ ﻌ ≦ აSoft ears, eyes squeezed shut. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ ◞ ﻌ ◟ აSoft ears, eyes drooping, sorry. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮ ・ﻌ・აEars: Gujarati eight and Georgian an. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
૮₍ ˶•⤙•˶ ₎აArrow-tail for a muzzle, subscript brackets. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ⤙ from Supplemental Arrows-B and ა from Georgian.
૮ - ﻌ - ა zzzSoft ears, asleep. Borrows ૮ from Gujarati, ﻌ from Arabic and ა from Georgian.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 69 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: each was put together for this page from the parts a dog kaomoji is made of (two hanging ears, eyes, a muzzle, sometimes a paw, a body or a bark). Some are forms in common use that nobody owns. The labels, groups and order are our own. Every entry has a hanging ear, which is how this site tells a dog from a bear: a capital U, Union (U+222A), Greek small letter upsilon (U+03C5), a letter V, a down-pointing triangle, Canadian syllabics final bottom half ring (U+1421), Latin small letter v with hook (U+028B), or the pair Gujarati digit eight (U+0AEE) and Georgian letter an (U+10D0). The two commonest muzzles are both named ain: Latin letter ain (U+1D25), in 33 entries, and Arabic letter ain medial form (U+FECC), in 12. Japanese words from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: wanwan, the sound of a dog barking, woof-woof, bow-wow, a reduplication of wan, also baby talk for a dog, katakana spelling listed (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/わんわん); kyankyan, yelp, yap, a high-pitched cry, especially of a small dog (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/きゃんきゃん); kunkun, sniff-sniff (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/くんくん). Every character of every entry was looked up in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and must be an assigned, visible character. Emoji are left out. "Borrows" under an entry names each character from outside the blocks of punctuation, common symbols and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese letters, with its script from Scripts.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt) or, for a Latin or common character, its block from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). "Is on the emoji list" names each character that has the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt). "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work