😺Grinning Cat Emoji
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused. It’s a simple way to show you find something cute or funny.
The 😺 emoji is a grinning cat face.
- Unicode
- U+1F63A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :smiley_cat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😺 Grinning Cat emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
Grinning Cat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F63A. 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.
Grinning 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 :smiley_cat:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F63A.
How to type the 😺 Grinning Cat emoji
No picker to hand? The grinning cat can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Grinning Cat 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
Grinning Cat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around grinning 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 grinning cat and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😺 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the grinning cat lands changes how it is taken.
😺 vs 😸 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes
Code: U+1F638 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smile_cat:
Generally, 😸 means someone is happy and amused.
Where the 😺 Grinning Cat 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+1F63A 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 E6F0, KDDI au EB61.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Grinning Cat was approved as U+1F63A 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.