U+1F431
🐱 Cat face
- Category
- Animals & Nature
- Subcategory
- Mammals
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 6.0 (2010)
- Emoji version
- 0.6 (2010)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🐱 emoji means
A cat face seen head-on. The pet version, the same way 🐶 is to 🐕.
Note that the cat has a whole row of faces with expressions — 😹 😻 😾 — which the dog does not. When a mood is involved, one of those usually fits better.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 🐱
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
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 cat face 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 | cat face |
|---|---|
| Русский | морда кошки |
| Deutsch | Katzengesicht |
| Español | cara de gato |
| Français | tête de chat |
| Polski | głowa kota |
| Dansk | kattehoved |
| Українська | морда кота |
| Português | rosto de gato |
Unicode CLDR 48