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

&#xD83D;&#xDC08;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository