🐱️ Cat face emoji
HTML
🐱
Unicode
U+1F431
What is 🐱️ called?
🐱️ is called the Cat face emoji.
Also known as cat head, kitten face, or kitty emoji. “Kitten” is a common affectionate label, although age is not encoded.
What does 🐱️ mean?
🐱 is officially named cat face. It shows a domestic cat’s head and represents cats, kittens, pets, cat lovers, or feline reactions.
Use it for pet photos, kittens, cat behaviour, veterinary visits, adoption, or a simple friendly feline theme. This neutral cat face differs from the separate cat-face emoji with specific expressions such as heart eyes or tears of joy. Related choices include 🐈 Cat and 😺 Grinning cat.
Other meanings
It can mean a cat face, kitten, kitty, pet cat, feline, cat lover, adoption, veterinary care, whiskers, or a cat-themed reaction.
Example Usage
The kitten has claimed my chair 🐱
We adopted a cat from the shelter 🐱
More details
Officially named cat face. Its code point is U+1F431. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0. It is a single code point representing a generic domestic cat face.
Visual description
A front-facing cat head has pointed ears, round eyes, a small triangular nose, whiskers, and often a gentle smile.
The head-only view distinguishes it from the full-body cat, while its neutral expression separates it from the emotional cat-face set. Colours and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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