Animals & Nature · Emoji 13.0
🐈⬛Black Cat Emoji
🐈⬛ means a black cat emoji. It’s often used to represent a little bit of mystery or darkness.
🐈⬛ means a black cat emoji.
- Unicode
- U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :black_
cat: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🐈⬛ Black Cat emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
02 — Platforms
Black Cat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F408 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your black cat looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Black Cat emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :black_cat:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F408.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🐈⬛ Black Cat emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Black Cat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the black cat as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Black Cat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around black cat for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — Around the world
What 🐈⬛ means in other countries
The rare emoji where the same image means bad luck in one country and good luck in another for the exact same scenario.
Associated with bad luck, especially if one crosses your path.
Considered good luck in the same crossing-your-path scenario, the opposite reading.
Used purely as seasonal imagery, separate from the luck superstition.
Before you send it: Know your audience before reading meaning into it; “good luck” and “bad luck” genuinely flip depending on the country.
08 — Apps
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.
10 — Difference
🐈⬛ vs 🐱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Black Cat
Code: U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B · added 2020
Shortcode: :black_cat:
🐈⬛ means a black cat emoji.
Unicode name: Cat Face
Code: U+1F431 · added 2010
Shortcode: :cat:
It usually just means “cat” or “cute.”
11 — History
Where the 🐈⬛ Black 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 U+200D U+2B1B 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.
Black Cat was approved as U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ