Cat Emoji
Animals
A full-bodied, side-profile illustration of a standing domestic cat, usually depicted in a neutral color like ginger, grey, or black. It shows the animal in a relaxed, alert posture with its tail extended.
Usage Context
Used to express an interest in pets, signify a playful mood, or reference internet culture's obsession with feline videos. It is frequently sent alongside 🐾 to highlight a love for animals or to describe the sounds and behaviors of a housecat.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial wave of animal emojis, this icon was designed to standardize the various pixel-art cat representations that existed on Japanese mobile platforms like SoftBank and NTT Docomo in the early 2000s.
Details
Glyph
🐈
Unicode
U+1F408
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f408:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Animals
Subcategory animal-mammal
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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