Cat with tears of joy

Laughing until crying, cat style: something is very funny.

The cat version of 😂, picked by cat fans and by anyone who wants a lighter, quirkier laugh. It is common under cat videos and pet memes, especially when a cat does something ridiculous, like falling off a couch.

Facts

Cat with tears of joy 😹 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under cat face. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :joy_cat: or :cat_with_tears_of_joy:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “cat”, “face”, or “joy”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

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

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0