Grinning cat
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- Shortcode
:smiley_cat:- Shortcode
:grinning_cat:- Unicode
U+1F63A- HTML
😺- CSS
\1F63A- JavaScript
"\u{1F63A}"- URL
%F0%9F%98%BA
What ๐บ means
Cheerful happiness with a feline twist: an open-mouthed grin on a cat's face.
Cat lovers use it in place of ๐ for an open, friendly smile. It also fits posts about cats, pet adoption news and anything feline, and it adds a bit of whimsy to an otherwise ordinary happy message.
Facts
Grinning cat ๐บ 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 :smiley_cat: or :grinning_cat:. People also look for it with words like โanimalโ, โcatโ, โfaceโ, or โgrinningโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.