🙀Weary Cat Emoji
It usually means someone is feeling surprised, shocked, or overwhelmed. It's a visual way to show you’re reacting strongly to something.
The 🙀 emoji, officially called “Weary Cat,” shows a cat with wide eyes and a slightly downturned mouth.
- Unicode
- U+1F640
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :scream_cat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🙀 Weary Cat emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Weary Cat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the weary cat 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.
Weary 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 :scream_cat:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F640.
How to type the 🙀 Weary Cat emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Weary 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
Weary Cat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around weary 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🙀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F640, 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: Weary Cat
Code: U+1F640 · added 2010
Shortcode: :scream_cat:
It usually means someone is feeling surprised, shocked, or overwhelmed.
Unicode name: Grinning Cat
Code: U+1F63A · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley_cat:
Generally, 😺 means someone is happy or amused.
Where the 🙀 Weary 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+1F640 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 E6F3, KDDI au EB66.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Weary Cat was approved as U+1F640 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.