Grinning cat with smiling eyes

A cat with a wide, toothy grin and squinted eyes: playful glee.

Works as a feline stand-in for 😄 or 😁, often with a mischievous edge, like a cat that just knocked something off a shelf. People use it for fun news and silly replies.

Facts

Grinning cat with smiling eyes 😸 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 :smile_cat: or :grinning_cat_with_smiling_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “cat”, “eye”, or “eyes”.

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