😹Cat with Tears of Joy Emoji
Basically, it means you find something super funny. It's like saying "I’m laughing so hard!
The 😹 emoji is basically showing you’re losing it with laughter.
- Unicode
- U+1F639
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :joy_cat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😹 Cat with Tears of Joy emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as cat laughing emoji, laughing cat emoji, laughing tears emoji.
Cat with Tears of Joy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F639. 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 with Tears of Joy 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 :joy_cat:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F639.
How to type the 😹 Cat with Tears of Joy emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Cat with Tears of Joy emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Cat with Tears of Joy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cat with tears of joy 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 with tears of joy and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F639, 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 with Tears of Joy
Code: U+1F639 · added 2010
Shortcode: :joy_cat:
Basically, it means you find something super funny.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
Where the 😹 Cat with Tears of Joy 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+1F639 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 E72A, KDDI au EB63.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cat with Tears of Joy was approved as U+1F639 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.