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😹Cat With Tears Of Joy Emoji

😹 is the cat with tears of joy emoji, U+1F639, one of 9 in the Cat Faces set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for animal, cat and face.

What 😹 cat with tears of joy means

Nine cats mirroring the human smileys, joy, love, smugness, shock and misery included. They came in with the original 2010 Unicode emoji set, inherited from Japanese phone carriers, and are mostly used now for cat owners, for softening a message, or as a cuter substitute when the human face would feel too direct.

Unicode tags this one animal, cat and face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Cat Faces.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F639`
HTML hex	`😹`
HTML decimal	`😹`
CSS	`\1F639`
JavaScript	`\u{1F639}`
Python	`\U0001F639`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE39`
Rust	`\u{1f639}`
Swift	`\u{1F639}`
PHP	`\u{1F639}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%B9`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 B9`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE39`
Base64	`8J+YuQ==`
Decimal	`128569`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 😹

Windows — press Win + . and search “cat with tears of joy”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f639 and Enter.
HTML — paste 😹.

How 😹 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

😹Apple
😹Segoe
😹Noto
😹System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 😹 cat with tears of joy emoji mean?+

😹 is the cat with tears of joy emoji, tagged animal, cat and face. Nine cats mirroring the human smileys, joy, love, smugness, shock and misery included. They came in with the original 2010 Unicode emoji set, inherited from Japanese phone carriers, and are mostly used now for cat owners, for softening a message, or as a cuter substitute when the human face would feel too direct.

What is the Unicode code for 😹?+

cat with tears of joy is U+1F639. In HTML that is 😹, in CSS \1F639, and in JavaScript \u{1F639}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😹 emoji added?+

cat with tears of joy got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😹 cat with tears of joy.