Cat with wry smile Emoji

Smileys

A yellow cat face featuring a lopsided, mischievous grin and narrowed eyes. It translates the human smirk into a feline expression, suggesting a sense of secret amusement or smug satisfaction.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for signaling sarcasm, teasing a friend, or implying that you know something others don't. It is the feline equivalent of the human 😏 and is frequently used to add a layer of playful skepticism to a text conversation.

History

Part of the expansion of cat-themed expressions in the early 2010s, this character was added to the Unicode standard to meet the massive demand for expressive animals that could convey specific human emotions. It became a staple of internet culture as users sought to express ironic detachment through animal avatars.

Details

Glyph

😼

Unicode

U+1F63C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f63c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE3C;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory cat-face

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.

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