🐱 Cat Face

The face of a cat, looking directly forward. Shown as yellow or gray on most platforms, this emoji generally has a cartoon-style appearance and visible whiskers.

Distinct from the cat emoji, which displays the full body of a cat. A range of other cat face emojis are available which express emotions such as grinning, pouting, or laughing. Also available as an Animoji on iOS.

Cat Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.