Black cat emoji ๐โโฌ
Emoji 13.0 (2020) ยท U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B
What ๐โโฌ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Black cat ๐โโฌ is tagged with these keywords: animal, black, cat, feline, halloween, meow, unlucky.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing animal or black in the emoji search brings up ๐โโฌ.
Black cat ๐โโฌ is one of 66 emoji in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature (161 emoji), next to ๐ฆ ๐ฏ ๐ ๐.
Will ๐โโฌ show on my friend's phone?
๐โโฌ was added in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
What ๐โโฌ is made of
Technically ๐โโฌ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): ๐ cat + โฌ black large square. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type ๐โโฌ
Any emoji picker finds ๐โโฌ when you search for black cat.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type black cat.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type black cat in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type black cat.
Codes for developers
Black cat ๐โโฌ is written with 3 code points: U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B. In UTF-8 it takes 10 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 4.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🐈‍⬛ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🐈‍⬛ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F408 \200D \2B1B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F408}\u200D\u2B1B | |
| URL | %F0%9F%90%88%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 88 E2 80 8D E2 AC 9B |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐โโฌ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | black cat |
| Portuguรชs | gato preto |
| Espaรฑol | gato negro |
| Italiano | gatto nero |
| Franรงais | chat noir |
| Deutsch | schwarze Katze |
| Tรผrkรงe | kara kedi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kucing hitam |
| Polski | czarny kot |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ัะตัะฝะฐั ะบะพัะบะฐ |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ้ป็ซ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ๊ฒ์ ๊ณ ์์ด |
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What does the black cat emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐โโฌ "black cat" and links it with animal, black, cat, feline. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the mammals subgroup of animals & nature.
When was the black cat emoji added?
In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 show it.
Why does ๐โโฌ sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of ๐ โฌ joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.