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 Twitter/X

Category Animals

Subcategory animal-mammal

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

CC-BY 4.0 License Twemoji Repository