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😺Grinning Cat Emoji
😺 grinning cat is encoded at U+1F63A and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Cat Faces, alongside 8 related emojis.
What 😺 grinning cat 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+1F63A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😺 | |
| HTML decimal | 😺 | |
| CSS | \1F63A | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F63A} | |
| Python | \U0001F63A | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE3A | |
| Rust | \u{1f63a} | |
| Swift | \u{1F63A} | |
| PHP | \u{1F63A} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%BA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 BA | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE3A | |
| Base64 | 8J+Yug== | |
| Decimal | 128570 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 😺
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “grinning 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 type1f63aand 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 😺 grinning cat emoji mean?+
😺 is the grinning cat 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 😺?+
grinning cat is U+1F63A. In HTML that is 😺, in CSS \1F63A, and in JavaScript \u{1F63A}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😺 emoji added?+
grinning cat 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Cat Faces in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😺 grinning cat.