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This emoji is a <a href="/glossary#non-rgi">non-RGI</a>&nbsp;proprietary&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a>. It has not been recommended by Unicode, meaning it will most likely appear as its consistent emojis across most platforms.

non-rgi-sequence

Meow! A friendly, cartoon-styled face of a cat, looking straight ahead. Generally depicted as a yellowish-orange cat face with pointed ears and whiskers.

May be used with a more affectionate tone than the full-bodied <a href="/cat/">🐈 Cat</a>, though their applications generally overlap.

Available as an Apple <a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.

Vendors implement the same or similar cat in their <a href="/cat/">🐈 Cat</a> as well as in their cat-faced variants of smileys:

<ul>
	<li><a href="/cat-with-wry-smile/">😼 Cat Face With Wry Smile</a></li>
	<li><a href="/cat-with-tears-of-joy/">😹 Cat Face With Tears of Joy</a></li>
	<li><a href="/weary-cat/">🙀 Weary Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/pouting-cat/">😾 Pouting Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a></li>
	<li><a href="/grinning-cat/">😺 Grinning Cat Face</a></li>
	<li><a href="/grinning-cat-with-smiling-eyes/">😸 Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes</a></li>
	<li><a href="/kissing-cat/">😽 Kissing Cat Face</a></li>
</ul>

Google&rsquo;s cat face was <a href="/google/android-7.0/cat-face/">previously</a> orange, <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/cat-face/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> gray, and <a href="/facebook/2.0/cat-face/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> once gray and white. Included in the earliest Japanese emoji sets from <a href="/cat-face/">Softbank</a>, <a href="/docomo/1999/cat-face/">Docomo</a>, and <a href="/au-kddi/type-c-2/cat-face/">au by KDDI</a>.

Cat Face

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

A rocket being propelled into <a href="/milky-way/" title="🌌 Milky Way">space</a>. Sometimes used to indicate a fast increase, for instance when referring to stocks going&nbsp;to the moon&nbsp;🚀 (rising quickly in price).

Rocket

A variation of <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a> which&nbsp;was shown as an <a href="/astronaut/">astronaut</a>.&nbsp;This emoji was included in <a href="/microsoft/">Windows 10</a> as a proprietary <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a> which was not supported by other vendors.

Variations included the canonical <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<a href="/dino-cat/">🐱&zwj;🐉&nbsp;Dino Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hacker-cat/">🐱&zwj;💻&nbsp;Hacker Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hipster-cat/">🐱&zwj;👓&nbsp;Hipster Cat</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/stunt-cat/">🐱&zwj;🏍&nbsp;Stunt Cat</a>.

Astro Cat and the other variations of 🐱&zwj;👤 Ninja Cat were removed in Microsoft&#39;s Fluent emoji redesign, released in late 2021.

A cat that is also a <a href="/ninja/">ninja</a>. Used as an <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/life/ninja-cat/">unofficial&nbsp;mascot</a>&nbsp;by Microsoft, and was available&nbsp;in the Segoe Color Emoji font&nbsp;included with <a href="/microsoft/">Windows 10</a>.&nbsp;Ninja Cat was implemented&nbsp;as a proprietary <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a> which&nbsp;was not supported by other vendors.

Variations included&nbsp;<a href="/astro-cat/">🐱&zwj;🚀&nbsp;Astro Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hipster-cat/">🐱&zwj;👓&nbsp;Hipster Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hacker-cat/">🐱&zwj;💻&nbsp;Hacker Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/dino-cat/">🐱&zwj;🐉&nbsp;Dino Cat</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/stunt-cat/">🐱&zwj;🏍&nbsp;Stunt Cat</a>.

Ninja Cat and its variations were&nbsp;removed in Microsoft&#39;s Fluent emoji redesign, released in late&nbsp;2021.

Ninja Cat

A variation of <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a> which was&nbsp;shown with a helmet and <a href="/superhero/">cape</a>.&nbsp;This emoji was included in <a href="/microsoft/">Windows 10</a> as a proprietary <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a> which was not supported by other vendors.

Variations included the canonical <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<a href="/astro-cat/">🐱&zwj;🚀&nbsp;Astro Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/dino-cat/">🐱&zwj;🐉&nbsp;Dino Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hacker-cat/">🐱&zwj;💻&nbsp;Hacker Cat</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/hipster-cat/">🐱&zwj;👓&nbsp;Hipster Cat</a>.

Stunt Cat and the other&nbsp;variations of <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;were removed in Microsoft&#39;s Fluent emoji redesign, released in late&nbsp;2021.

Stunt Cat

A variation of <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a> which was&nbsp;shown using a <a href="/laptop/">laptop computer</a>.&nbsp;This emoji was included in <a href="/microsoft/">Windows 10</a> as a proprietary <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a> which was not supported by other vendors.

Variations included the canonical <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<a href="/astro-cat/">🐱&zwj;🚀&nbsp;Astro Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/dino-cat/">🐱&zwj;🐉&nbsp;Dino Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hipster-cat/">🐱&zwj;👓&nbsp;Hipster Cat</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/stunt-cat/">🐱&zwj;🏍&nbsp;Stunt Cat</a>.

Hacker Cat and the other&nbsp;variations of <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;were removed in Microsoft&#39;s Fluent emoji redesign, released in late&nbsp;2021.

Hacker Cat

A variation of <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;that was shown riding a <a href="/t-rex/">Tyrannosaurus rex</a>.&nbsp;This emoji was&nbsp;included in <a href="/microsoft/">Windows 10</a> as a proprietary <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a> which was&nbsp;not supported by other vendors.

Variations included the canonical <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<a href="/astro-cat/">🐱&zwj;🚀&nbsp;Astro Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hacker-cat/">🐱&zwj;💻&nbsp;Hacker Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hipster-cat/">🐱&zwj;👓&nbsp;Hipster Cat</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/stunt-cat/">🐱&zwj;🏍&nbsp;Stunt Cat</a>.

Dino Cat and the other&nbsp;variations of <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;were removed in Microsoft&#39;s Fluent emoji redesign, released in late&nbsp;2021.

Dino Cat

A variation of <a href="/ninja-cat/">Ninja Cat</a> which was shown wearing glasses, reading a <a href="/open-book/">book</a> and holding a <a href="/hot-beverage/">hot beverage</a>.&nbsp;This emoji was included in <a href="/microsoft/">Windows 10</a> as a proprietary <a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ Sequence</a> which was not supported by other vendors.

Variations included the canonical <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<a href="/astro-cat/">🐱&zwj;🚀&nbsp;Astro Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/dino-cat/">🐱&zwj;🐉&nbsp;Dino Cat</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/hacker-cat/">🐱&zwj;💻&nbsp;Hacker Cat</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/stunt-cat/">🐱&zwj;🏍&nbsp;Stunt Cat</a>.

Hipster Cat and the other&nbsp;variations of <a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;were removed in Microsoft&#39;s Fluent emoji redesign, released in late&nbsp;2021.

Hipster Cat

An astronaut or cosmonaut shown wearing a&nbsp;space suit and helmet.

Astronaut

A person dressed as a ninja with a black hood, a mask covering the lower half of their face, and the hilt of a knife or sword&nbsp;emerging from behind their shoulder.

The now-discontinued Microsoft&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>&nbsp;<a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;did not include the&nbsp;ninja&nbsp;emoji at all as it was developed several years before ninja&nbsp;was approved. It combined&nbsp;<a href="/cat-face/">🐱 Cat Face</a> and <a href="/bust-in-silhouette/">👤 Bust in Silhouette</a> and was&nbsp;only available from Microsoft prior to the debut of the Fluent emoji set in November 2021.

Ninja

Astro Cat

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Emojis from Microsoft are&nbsp;supported on PCs and tablets&nbsp;running Windows 11, Windows 10, as well as Xbox. There were also available on Windows phones prior to them being&nbsp;discontinued. These are provided by the Segoe UI Emoji font, although some applications continue to show black and white emojis from an earlier release.

As of the <a href="/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update/">Windows 11&nbsp;November 2021 </a>update, the platform includes the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">new Fluent emoji design set</a>&nbsp;that was first previewed ahead of 2021&#39;s <a href="/world-emoji-day/">World Emoji Day</a>. Windows 10&#39;s last emoji update was the&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-may-2019-update/">May 2019 Update</a>, which supported emoji from up to early 2019&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.

Note: <a href="https://emojipedia.org/microsoft-teams/">Microsoft Teams </a>and <a href="/skype/">Skype</a> use&nbsp;a different emoticon set with an alternative animated design.

Emojis from Microsoft including Windows 11 Fluent Emoji Designs and Windows 10 Segoe UI Emoji.

Microsoft Emoji List — Emojis for Windows 11, Windows 10 and Xbox

Microsoft Windows 11&nbsp;launched&nbsp;on 2021-10-05, and was the first version of Windows update to support&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. Emojis in this release are displayed in the thick outlined&nbsp;Segoe Color Emoji&nbsp;style from Windows 10, instead of the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">Fluent designs</a> previewed ahead of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day 2021</a>.

Support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;was initially made available via Windows 10 Insiders Builds <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1337183890063187971">in December 2020</a>.

Windows 11

Windows 10 May 2019 update began rolling out on 2019-05-21, and was the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-may-2019-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this release</a>.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update

Windows 10 October 2018 Update (often referred to as&nbsp;Fall 2018 Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on October 2, 2018 and is the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

This update also includes a number of&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-october-2018-update/changed/">changes</a>&nbsp;to emoji appearance.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-october-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Windows 10 April 2018 Update (commonly referred to as&nbsp;Spring Creators Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on April 30, 2018 and includes a number of <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-april-2018-update/changed/">changes</a> to emoji appearance mainly to bring emoji design in line with other platforms. No new emojis were added in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-april-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is the major release that followed <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-creators-update/">Windows 10 Creators Update</a>. Released on October 17, 2017 this update added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> and changed the appearance of a number of existing emojis.

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Windows 10 Creators Update was the first major&nbsp;emoji update from Microsoft in 2017.

Released on April 11, 2017, this version added&nbsp;support for Emoji 4.0, and was the first update to support emojis for interracial couples. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-creators-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 Creators Update

Windows 10 Anniversary Update (version&nbsp;1607), aka &quot;Emojiversary Update&quot;&nbsp;was <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/29/windows-10-anniversary-update-available-august-2/">released</a> on August 2, 2016 and&nbsp;included&nbsp;a complete redesign of every emoji in the Segoe UI Emoji font.

This release&nbsp;also added support for <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9</a> emojis, as well as&nbsp;52,000 family combinations including single parent families and interracial families. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-emoji-families-come-to-windows/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Windows 8.1 introduced color emojis to Windows for the first time. Prior versions of Windows used black and white emoji characters. The Windows 8.1 emoji set is used on Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1.

Windows 8.1

🐱‍🚀 Astro Cat on Microsoft Windows 8.1

🐱‍🚀 Astro Cat on Microsoft Windows 8.1

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