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🐈 Cat

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🐈 Emoji meaning

I love cats! Affection, independence, pets, and mystique.

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🐈 Meaning

Let the cat out of the bag or “You think you're the cat's whiskers!“. Symbol for the cat lover or your own pet. The cat is said to have seven lives.

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Cat

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Cat face vs full cat; both used for cats/pets, head vs body difference is minor.

ZWJ Sequence

Cat

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Cat vs black cat; black coloration can be hard to see against dark themes, both simply ‘cat’.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Cat” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + animals + cats + kitten

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ cat

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ pet

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