Grinning cat emoji 😺
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F63A
What 😺 means
Grinning cat 😺 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: animal, cat, face, grinning, mouth, open, smile, smiling.
Those words also drive emoji search: try animal or cat on your phone to find 😺.
On the emoji keyboard, 😺 sits with the cat faces (9 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 😸 😹 😻 😼.
Will 😺 show on my friend's phone?
😺 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 😺
To find 😺 quickly, type grinning cat into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type grinning cat.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type grinning cat in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type grinning cat.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 😺 as one code point, U+1F63A: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F63A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 😺 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😺 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F63A"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F63A} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%98%BA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 BA |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 😺 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | grinning cat |
| Português | rosto de gato sorrindo |
| Español | gato sonriendo |
| Italiano | gatto che sorride |
| Français | chat qui sourit |
| Deutsch | grinsende Katze |
| Türkçe | sırıtan kedi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah kucing tersenyum lebar |
| Polski | uśmiechnięty kot |
| Русский | улыбающийся кот |
| 日本語 | にっこり笑う猫 |
| 한국어 | 활짝 웃는 고양이 얼굴 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the grinning cat emoji mean?
Unicode calls 😺 "grinning cat" and links it with animal, cat, face, grinning. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the cat faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the grinning cat emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the grinning cat emoji?
To find 😺 quickly, type grinning cat into the emoji search.