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 Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory cat-face

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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