Cat face Emoji

Animals

A cartoonish, forward-facing cat head featuring pointed ears, whiskers, and a simple snout. It captures the recognizable feline appearance found in domestic house cats.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for cat lovers, pet owners, or anyone looking to express a playful, curious, or cute mood. It is frequently sent alongside the dog face emoji to represent household pets or paired with the paw prints emoji to indicate a walk or playtime.

History

Part of the original set of emojis adapted from Japanese mobile phone carriers in the late 1990s, the cat face has since become a staple of digital communication. It predates the explosion of cat-themed internet culture, eventually serving as the base for the extensive collection of cat variants like the crying cat or heart eyes cat.

Details

Glyph

🐱

Unicode

U+1F431

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f431:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC31;

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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