😽Kissing Cat Emoji
Generally, 😽 means someone is expressing affection or wanting to be cute. It’s like a little digital kiss!
The 😽 emoji is a cute cat with its mouth open, appearing to be giving a kiss.
- Unicode
- U+1F63D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :kissing_cat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😽 Kissing Cat emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Kissing Cat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F63D. 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.
Kissing Cat emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :kissing_cat:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the kissing cat, code point U+1F63D.
How to type the 😽 Kissing Cat emoji
No picker to hand? The kissing cat can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Kissing Cat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the kissing cat 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
Kissing Cat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around kissing 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 kissing cat 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+1F63D, 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: Kissing Cat
Code: U+1F63D · added 2010
Shortcode: :kissing_cat:
Generally, 😽 means someone is expressing affection or wanting to be cute.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
Where the 😽 Kissing 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+1F63D 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 E726, KDDI au EB60.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Kissing Cat was approved as U+1F63D 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.