Curved at both ends, a classic dog-bone shape shows up without much room for interpretation. It's used for dog treats and pet content, Halloween and skeleton themes, and the phrase 'worked to the bone' for being run completely ragged by a long shift or a week that never let up.
What 🦴 means
A single, white animated bone, that looks a lot like a dog's chew bone. The colour, design and end finish of this emoji would slightly vary across different plaforms.
The 🦴 Bone emoji signifies a dog's chew toy, playing fetch with your furry friend and bonding with the dog. Besides, this emoji can also refer to a part of the human skeleton and on a larger sense, death too.
How and when to use it
- If you're taking your furry little child out to play, send 🦴 along with some sweet ❤️ Heart and 🐾 Paw emojis to tell your close friends about it, or the immediate person you're texting at that moment.
- You can also use 🦴 to signal that you and your four-legged buddy are/were playing fetch.
- 🦴 can also be used to say that you feel ripped to the bone after a tedious workout session.
- If you're out chew-toy shopping for either your own dog or someone else's, and you're posting or telling a close someone about it, use 🦴 in that context.
- 🦴 can also be used in Halloween conversations.
Other Names
- 🦴 Chew Bone
- 🦴 Dog Bone
- 🦴 Chew Toy
- 🦴 Fetch
- 🦴 Human Bone
- 🦴 Skeleton
- 🦴 Halloween
- 🦴 Death
- 🦴 Puppy Toy
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › body-parts
- Codepoints
U+1F9B4- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:bone:- Keywords
- bone, bones, dog, skeleton, wishbone
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🦴 Bone or 🌨️ Cloud with Snow?
Runs with a crowd
🦴 keeps company in skull emojis and white emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.