Grinning Cat Emoji 😺
Emoji Meaning
The emoji of a smiling cat coincides semantically with the regular human's “:)”. It means joy, good mood, and laughter, because your interlocutor's joke is so funny. It was Japan that started the anthropomorphic cats fever. They've got a whole fetish on that, because cats are such cuties! Actually the cat smiles existed long before the appearance of emojis: :3, =^_^=. Kawai!
The symbol “Grinning Cat” is included in the “Cat faces” subblock of the “Emoticons (Emoji)” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Cat Face” subcategory of the “Smileys & Emotion” category.
Synonyms
Happy cat, smiling cat.
| Unicode Name | Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Emoticons (Emoji) |
| Unicode Subblock | Cat faces |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Emoji Subcategory | Cat Face |
| Emoji Name | Grinning Cat |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F63A |
| Simple case change | 1F63A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 98 BA | 240 159 152 186 | 4036991162 | 11110000 10011111 10011000 10111010 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3D DE 3A | 216 61 222 58 | 3627933242 | 11011000 00111101 11011110 00111010 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D D8 3A DE | 61 216 58 222 | 1037581022 | 00111101 11011000 00111010 11011110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F6 3A | 0 1 246 58 | 128570 | 00000000 00000001 11110110 00111010 |
| UTF-32LE | 3A F6 01 00 | 58 246 1 0 | 989200640 | 00111010 11110110 00000001 00000000 |
