Smiling cat with heart-eyes

Heart eyes on a beaming cat: love and adoration.

Sent for crushes, pretty things and above all cute animals. It is the cat counterpart of 😍 and shows up a lot under kitten photos and pet posts. Cat owners also use it to say they are smitten with a new pet.

Facts

Smiling cat with heart-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 :heart_eyes_cat: or :smiling_cat_with_heart_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “animal”, “cat”, “eye”, or “face”.

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