🐱Cat Face Emoji
It usually just means “cat” or “cute. ” People use it to show they like cats or find something adorable.
The 🐱 emoji is a simple cat face.
- Unicode
- U+1F431
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🐱 Cat Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as kitten emoji, kitty emoji.
Cat Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F431 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your cat face looks like to the person on the other side.
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 Face 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 :cat:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the cat face, code point U+1F431.
How to type the 🐱 Cat Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F431 when there is no key at all.
Cat Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cat face 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 Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cat face 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🐱 means in other countries
Reads as a cute pet almost everywhere, but English slang gives “cat” a crude double meaning in flirtier chat.
“Cat” doubles as crude slang, so the emoji sometimes carries a sexual undertone in flirty threads.
Cats are viewed favorably and considered clean, unlike the more cautious view of dogs.
Strong lucky/beloved association through maneki-neko and cat-cafe culture.
Before you send it: Safe for pet or cute-content chat; be aware of the slang reading if the conversation is already flirtatious.
What 🐱 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F431, 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 Face
Code: U+1F431 · added 2010
Shortcode: :cat:
It usually just means “cat” or “cute.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
Where the 🐱 Cat Face emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F431 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🐱 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6A2, KDDI au E4DB, SoftBank E04F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cat Face was approved as U+1F431 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.