🐈Cat Emoji
Usually, 🐈 just means "cat. " People use it to talk about their own pets or to express a fondness for cats in general.
The 🐈 emoji represents a cat.
- Unicode
- U+1F408
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :cat2:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐈 Cat emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Cat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F408. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Cat emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cat2:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F408.
How to type the 🐈 Cat emoji
No picker to hand? The cat can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Cat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cat as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Cat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cat for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🐈, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🐈 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the cat and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🐈 means in other countries
Read as good luck and affection almost everywhere it shows up, from ancient reverence to modern meme culture.
Cats are considered lucky, tied to the beckoning maneki-neko figure seen in shops everywhere.
Historically revered, and still generally well regarded today.
One of the most-used emoji for humor and memes, largely detached from deeper meaning.
Before you send it: Safe across the board; the only real split in cat luck lives with the separate black cat emoji, not this one.
What 🐈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F408, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🐈 vs 🐱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cat
Code: U+1F408 · added 2014
Shortcode: :cat2:
Usually, 🐈 just means "cat.
Unicode name: Cat Face
Code: U+1F431 · added 2010
Shortcode: :cat:
It usually just means “cat” or “cute.
Where the 🐈 Cat emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F408 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Cat was approved as U+1F408 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🐈 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.