🐱 Meaning – Cat Face Emoji

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This emoji represents a simple, nice cat face. It can replace perfectly some of the most popular happy, round-face emoji. People usually use Cat Face Emoji to complement a casual text and add some colour to it. As the classic yellow emoji, it has no particular meaning.

The Cat Face Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Cat Symbol. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Black Cat Emoji.

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Cat Face Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F431
Unicode name: Cat Face
Category: Animals & Nature / Mammals
Keywords: cat, face, pet, animal
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F431
Decimal HTML Entity: 🐱
Hex HTML Entity: 🐱
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDC31
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

🌐 Cat Face Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Katzengesicht	Gesicht, Katze, Tier
Français	tête de chat	animal, chat
Русский	морда кошки	домашнее животное, животное, кот, кошка, морда
Español	cara de gato	animal, cara, gato
Italiano	muso di gatto	animale, faccina, gatto
Português	rosto de gato	animal, gato, rosto
Polski	głowa kota	kicia, kot, pysk, pyszczek, zwierzę

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How to type Cat Face Emoji

There are number of methods to type Cat Face Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🐱 emoji

It's very easy to get Cat Face Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🐱 meaning and look at 🐱 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🐱 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.