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🐈️Cat Emoji
🐈️ cat is encoded at U+1F408 U+FE0F and shipped with Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals, alongside 65 related emojis.
What 🐈️ cat means
Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
Unicode tags this one animal, animals and cats and files it under Animals & Nature → Mammals.
Copy variants
cat carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🐈️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🐈U+1F408cat
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F408 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🐈️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🐈️ | |
| CSS | \1F408\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F408}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F408\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC08\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f408}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F408}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F408}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%90%88%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 90 88 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC08 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+QiO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128008 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🐈️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “cat”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “animal”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f408and 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 emoji mean?+
🐈️ is the cat emoji, tagged animal, animals and cats. Pets and wildlife carry most of the traffic here: 🐶 and 🐱 stand in for the animal you actually own, 🐻 and 🐨 work as plain affection, and 🦄 marks anything improbably rare, including a billion-dollar startup. The family's biggest drift is 🐐, which now almost always means greatest of all time. 🐻❄️ polar bear and 🐈⬛ black cat are ZWJ sequences added in Emoji 13.0.
What is the Unicode code for 🐈️?+
cat is U+1F408 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🐈️, in CSS \1F408\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F408}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🐈️ emoji added?+
cat got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Mammals in Animals & Nature.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🐈️ cat.