Grinning Cat Emoji
😺
What does the Grinning Cat emoji mean?
1
A grinning cat-face emoji — colors may vary by platform, but it typically wears a warm, friendly expression.
2
A grinning cat face, styled like a contented cat emoji. The yellow face features perky ears, a small red nose, and a pleased mouth with the tongue playfully peeking out.
This feline smile makes a livelier alternative to the simple smiling-face emoji. It’s used to express joy, satisfaction, happiness and delight — and is especially popular with animal lovers.
Also Known As
- 😺 Happy Cat
- 😺 Smiling Cat
Apple Name
- 😺 Happy Cat Face
Unicode Name
- 😺 Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Grinning Cat emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
😺 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F63A
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%98%BA |
| Punycode | xn--138h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 BA |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE3A |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f63a |
| CSS | \01F63A |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F63A} |
| Perl | \x{1F63A} |
| HTML hex | 😺 |
| HTML dec | 😺 |
Tags: cat, face, grinning, mouth, open, animal, smile, smiling
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Cat faces