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Black cat emoji

🐈‍⬛ Black cat

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🐈‍⬛ Emoji meaning

Spooky! Halloween, witches, superstition, good luck, and bad luck.

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🐈‍⬛ Meaning

She is very superstitious! The kitty cat is a popular pet, but is also considered a bad omen. Due to an old superstition, black cats bring bad luck. Revered by the ancient Egyptians, a lucky charm in Japan and a symbol of evil in the Middle Ages.

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Black 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 “Black cat” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ animal + feline + halloween + meow

In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ black + cat + unlucky

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