Black cat

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Shortcode: :black_cat:
Unicode: U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B
HTML: 🐈‍⬛
CSS: \1F408\200D\2B1B
JavaScript: "\u{1F408}\u{200D}\u{2B1B}"
URL: %F0%9F%90%88%E2%80%8D%E2%AC%9B

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What 🐈‍⬛ means

A black cat, made by joining 🐈 with ⬛. It means black cats, Halloween, witchy vibes, and superstition about luck.

Spooky season, witch aesthetics, and owners of black cats keep it busy. It also stands for the moody, mysterious partner in the “black cat and golden retriever” couple meme, opposite an upbeat, friendly partner.

Superstitions differ: in some places a black cat crossing a person's path means bad luck, in others good luck.

Facts

Black cat 🐈‍⬛ is an emoji in the animals and nature category, under animal mammal. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. It is a sequence that joins 🐈 cat and ⬛ black large square. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :black_cat:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “black”, “cat”, or “feline”.

Made of

🐈+⬛=🐈‍⬛

Timeline

2020Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 13.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

2020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

2020

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

animals & nature · Emoji 13.0