U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B
🐈⬛ Black cat
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Mammals
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 13.0 (2020)
- Emoji version
- 13.0 (2020)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What 🐈⬛ is made of
This symbol is glued together from several: an invisible joiner sits between them. Software that does not know about the joiner shows the parts separately.
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🐈
cat
U+1F408 -
⛓
invisible joiner
U+200D -
⬛
black large square
U+2B1B
Hence the familiar surprise: you send one picture and the other side gets several in a row, and deleting removes the symbol piece by piece. That is not a fault but how the standard itself works.
Will your readers see 🐈⬛
The symbol belongs to the Emoji 13.0 set, and all four platforms have caught up with it. Below is the exact release for each.
- Apple since November 5, 2020 iOS 14.2
- Google since August 3, 2020 Android 11.0
- Microsoft since October 5, 2021 Windows 11
- Samsung since August 21, 2020 One UI 2.5
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🐈⬛ emoji is used
The 🐈⬛ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how black cat is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🐈⬛ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | black cat |
|---|---|
| Русский | черная кошка |
| Deutsch | schwarze Katze |
| Español | gato negro |
| Français | chat noir |
| Polski | czarny kot |
| Dansk | sort kat |
| Українська | чорний кіт |
| Português | gato preto |
Unicode CLDR 48