Cat With Tears Of Joy Emoji

What does the Cat With Tears Of Joy emoji mean?

😹 is the Cat With Tears Of Joy emoji from the Smileys & Emotion collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for cat with tears of joy that enhances tone and clarity in digital communication. Unicode maps this character to U+1F639 and it first shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). The code point ensures the same underlying meaning even though visual art varies by vendor. Because tone is hard to convey in plain text, this emoji functions as digital body language. It is often paired with greetings, apologies, thanks, or reactions to add empathy and reduce friction in fast-moving conversations. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of cat with tears of joy stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (😹), as an HTML entity (😹), or as a shortcode (:cat-with-tears-of-joy:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for cat with tears of joy — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Cat With Tears Of Joy emoji

• In chat: Drop 😹 into a sentence where you would normally write “cat with tears of joy” to add tone and visual interest.
• On social media: Pair 😹 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
• In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 😹 or shortcode :cat-with-tears-of-joy: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

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