Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes Emoji
What does the Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji mean?
A grinning cat emoji with smiling eyes — a playful, feline twist on the classic grin. It’s usually yellow across platforms, though shades can vary. Use it to express happiness, warm pride, or cheeky delight.
A feline variant of the grinning face with smiling eyes emoji. It's usually shown as a yellow cat (on most platforms), eyes squeezed shut in joy and mouth wide open.
This laughing cat expresses sincere happiness, delight—perfect for celebrating someone's achievement or, more simply, as a cheerful greeting from someone who's clearly happy to see you.
Also Known As
- 😸 Grinning Cat
- 😸 Happy Cat
Apple Name
- 😸 Grinning Cat Face
Unicode Name
- 😸 Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
😸 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F638
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%98%B8 |
| Punycode | xn--z38h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 B8 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE38 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f638 |
| CSS | \01F638 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F638} |
| Perl | \x{1F638} |
| HTML hex | 😸 |
| HTML dec | 😸 |
Tags: cat, eye, face, grin, grinning cat with smiling eye, animal, eyes, grinning, smile, smiling
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Cat faces