Cat Emoji
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What does the Cat emoji mean?
1
A light-orange, striped cat stands on all fours facing left, its tail held high, a visual nod to feline qualities like curiosity and impulsiveness.
2
A full-body image shows a cat in profile, so you can clearly see its body, paws, tail and face. The pet is rendered in a warm yellow tone, with the tips of its paws and tail painted white.
People adore these animals — nearly every home has its own cat or kitten. That’s why pets frequently pop up in conversations and messages. A cat emoji is often used literally to represent a cat.
Also Known As
- 🐈 Domestic Cat
- 🐈 Feline
- 🐈 Housecat
Apple Name
- 🐈 Cat
Unicode Name
- 🐈 Cat
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Cat emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🐈 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F408
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%90%88 |
| Punycode | xn--zn8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 90 88 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC08 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f408 |
| CSS | \01F408 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F408} |
| Perl | \x{1F408} |
| HTML hex | 🐈 |
| HTML dec | 🐈 |