😼Cat with Wry Smile Emoji
Generally, 😼 means someone is feeling playful, a little mischievous, or just wants to convey a cute, feline vibe. It’s often used to show you're enjoying something a bit, or to add a touch of humor.
The 😼 emoji is a cat with a wry smile, often looking like it’s smirking or has a sly secret.
- Unicode
- U+1F63C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :smirk_cat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😼 Cat with Wry Smile emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
Cat with Wry Smile emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the cat with wry smile as 9 vendors ship it.
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 Wry Smile emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :smirk_cat:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F63C.
How to type the 😼 Cat with Wry Smile emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F63C when there is no key at all.
Cat with Wry Smile 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 Wry Smile emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cat with wry smile 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 😼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
😼 vs 😺 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cat with Wry Smile
Code: U+1F63C · added 2010
Shortcode: :smirk_cat:
Generally, 😼 means someone is feeling playful, a little mischievous, or just wants to convey a cute, feline vibe.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
Where the 😼 Cat with Wry Smile 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+1F63C 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 EB6A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cat with Wry Smile was approved as U+1F63C 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.