Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
😸Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes Emoji
Generally, 😸 means someone is happy and amused. It’s a simple way to show you’re smiling and enjoying something.
The 😸 emoji shows a cat with a wide grin and sparkling eyes.
- Unicode
- U+1F638
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :smile_
cat: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 😸 Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the grinning cat with smiling eyes has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :smile_cat:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F638.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😸 Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F638 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the grinning cat with smiling eyes as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around grinning cat with smiling eyes 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 — In conversation
What 😸 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What 😸 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the grinning cat with smiling eyes lands changes how it is taken.
10 — Difference
😸 vs 😺 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes
Code: U+1F638 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smile_cat:
Generally, 😸 means someone is happy and amused.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
11 — History
Where the 😸 Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes 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+1F638 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 E753, KDDI au EB7F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes was approved as U+1F638 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.
12 — FAQ