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A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/pouting-face/">😡 Pouting Face</a>. Also resembles <a href="/angry-face/">😠 Angry Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms. Sometimes used to represent the internet meme and celebrity <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumpy_Cat">Grumpy Cat</a>.

Apple&rsquo;s design <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/pouting-cat/">previously displayed</a> the face in profile, as did <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/pouting-cat/">Twitter&#39;s</a>. Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pouting-cat/">previously</a> more closely resembled the&nbsp;<a href="/worried-face/">😟 Worried Face&nbsp;</a>than the&nbsp;<a href="/angry-face/">😠 Angry Face</a>.

Pouting Cat Face

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/smirking-face/">😏 Smirking Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Cat Face with Wry Smile

A yellow face with a frowning mouth and eyes and eyebrows scrunched downward in anger.

Conveys varying&nbsp;degrees of anger, from grumpiness and irritation to disgust and outrage. May also represent someone acting tough or being mean.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0/angry-face/">previously featured</a> a reddish face with clenched teeth and wrinkled chin.&nbsp;Google&rsquo;s design also <a href="/google/android-9.0/angry-face/">previously featured</a>&nbsp;a reddish face, while Facebook&rsquo;s and Microsoft&#39;s <a href="/facebook/3.0/angry-face/">earlier</a> <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/angry-face/">designs</a>&nbsp;had&nbsp;clenched teeth.

Angry Face

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Crying Cat Face

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/weary-face/">😩 Weary Face</a>. Its expression more closely resembles <a href="/face-screaming-in-fear/">😱 Face Screaming in Fear</a>.&nbsp;Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Weary Cat Face

A yellow face with simple open eyes showing clenched teeth. May represent a range of negative or tense emotions, especially nervousness, embarrassment, or awkwardness (e.g., Eek!).

Resembled <a href="/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😁 Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes</a> on Apple iOS <a href="/apple/ios-8.3/beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes/">prior to 2016</a>. Apple&rsquo;s design for <a href="/cold-face/">🥶 Cold Face</a> features the same mouth. Samsung&#39;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/grimacing-face/">previously featured</a> more puckered-looking lips.&nbsp;

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji &amp; Emoticon Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this&nbsp;emoji next to a contact denotes that you send the most snaps to the same person that they do., i.e.,&nbsp;you share a #1 Best Friend.

Grimacing Face

A person with a serious expression,&nbsp;showing mild displeasure&nbsp;with the situation. Could be considered to be reserved or stoic in response, as this person is not visible angry.

Quite different to the&nbsp;<a href="/pouting-face/" title="😡 Pouting Face">Pouting Face Emoji</a>&nbsp;which conveys a more aggressive tone, and is a smiley. <a href="/pouting-cat/">Pouting Cat Face</a> is a cat.

Person with Pouting Face

A middle finger emoji, used in some western cultures as a rude or insulting&nbsp;gesture. The back of the hand is shown with the middle finger raised.

Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended

A domestic cat, beloved as a&nbsp;pet. Generally depicted as a light-orange cat with stripes, as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_cat">tabby</a>, in full profile on all fours facing left, with its long tell held upright.

See also <a href="/cat-face/">🐱 Cat Face</a>.

Google&rsquo;s cat is cartoon-styled, shown sitting on its hind legs with a friendly expression and whiskers. Facebook&rsquo;s cat is a gray tabby, though <a href="/google/android-7.0/cat/">previously</a> was orange. <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/cat/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/cat/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> cats were previously gray, <a href="/twitter/twemoji-1.0/cat/">Twitter&rsquo;s</a> brown.

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

A red face with an angry expression: frowning mouth with eyes and eyebrows scrunched downward. Bears the same expression as <a href="/angry-face/">😠&nbsp;Angry Face</a> on most platforms and may convey more intense degrees of anger, e.g., hate or rage.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/pouting-face/">previously featured</a> a yellow face with the <a href="/anger-symbol/">💢 Anger Symbol</a> on its forehead. Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pouting-face/">previously featured</a> a&nbsp;yellow face with a more hurt expression.

Not to be confused with <a href="/person-pouting/">🙎 Person With Pouting Face</a>. This emoji also has a cat variant, <a href="/pouting-cat/">😾&nbsp;Pouting Cat Face</a>.

Pouting Face

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Cat Face with Tears of Joy

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/grinning-face/">😀 Grinning Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/smiling-face-with-heart-eyes/">😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/kissing-face-with-closed-eyes/">😚 Kissing Face With Closed Eyes</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Kissing Cat Face with Closed Eyes

A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes and a crumpled mouth, as if quivering in frustration or holding back tears. May be used to represent being overcome with various emotions, including irritation, frustration, disgust, and sadness,&nbsp;as if to the point of defeat.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Microsoft and Twitter&rsquo;s designs feature&nbsp;eyebrows, Facebook&rsquo;s a purple forehead.

Vendor designs have noticeably evolved over time. <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/confounded-face/">Apple</a> and <a href="/google/android-8.0/confounded-face/">Google&rsquo;s</a> designs previously included eyebrows. Earlier versions <a href="/google/android-7.0/confounded-face/">from Google</a> also displayed a more miserable expression, and <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/confounded-face/">Microsoft</a> a more confused one.

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/confounded-face/">previously featured</a> X&rsquo;s for eyes, a flushed nose, and vertical lines over its forehead, shorthands in manga and anime for such feelings as anger and embarrassment.

Confounded Face

An angry-red face with a black bar and white <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/grawlix-symbols-swearing-comic-strips">grawlixes</a> covering its mouth, indicating it&#39;s swearing or being vulgar. Grawlixes are typographical symbols (e.g.,&nbsp;@#$%&amp;!) representing swear words or obscenities. Often used to convey an outburst of anger, frustration, or rage.

Most platforms feature the same eyes as on their <a href="/angry-face/">😠 Angry Face</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/pouting-face">😡 Enraged Face</a>.

Serious Face with Symbols Covering Mouth

A yellow face with closed eyes, furrowed eyebrows, broad frown, and two puffs of steam blowing out of its nose, as if in a huff or fuming.&nbsp;

May convey various negative emotions, including irritation, anger, and contempt. May also convey feelings of pride, dominance, and empowerment.&nbsp;

Originally named Face With Look of Triumph, and the steam from its nose may derive from <a href="http://www.visuallanguagelab.com/A/jvlmorphology.html">a visual shorthand for frustration or disdain</a>&nbsp;in anime and manga.&nbsp;

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/face-with-steam-from-nose/">previously looked</a> like its head was titled back in a more arrogant expression. Earlier designs <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/face-with-steam-from-nose/">from Microsoft</a> depicted a big, open mouth without steam and <a href="/facebook/1.0/face-with-steam-from-nose/">from Facebook,</a> a smiley that resembled <a href="/grimacing-face/">😬 Grimacing Face</a>.

Face with Look of Triumph

A black cat shown in full profile, often with its tail curling upward.

Black Cat

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

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

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.

Released in&nbsp;October&nbsp;2010, Unicode 6.0 was the first version of the Unicode Standard to support emoji.

Some characters in <a href="/unicode-5.2/">prior</a>&nbsp;versions of Unicode were retroactively updated to provide&nbsp;an emoji presentation. This release was the first to introduce new characters for the sole purpose of compatability with emojis being used in Japan.

SoftBank&nbsp;is a Japanese carrier&nbsp;which had its own emoji set for the years 1997&mdash;2016. SoftBank (known as J-Phone at the time) created the&nbsp;first known&nbsp;emoji set. The SoftBank emoji designs&nbsp;heavily influenced&nbsp;<a href="/apple/iphone-os-2.2/">Apple&#39;s original emoji font</a>&nbsp;which was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/apples-emoji-evolution-1997-2018/">designed to be compatible with this set</a>&nbsp;when launching in Japan, due&nbsp;to iPhone being a SoftBank-exclusive phone when first released.

SoftBank&nbsp;<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softbank.jp%2Fmobile%2Finfo%2Fpersonal%2Fsoftware%2F20170120-02%2F&amp;edit-text=">announced</a> it would switch to using Google emoji designs from 2016, for&nbsp;phones supporting <a href="/google/android-7.0/">Android 7.0</a> or above. SoftBank no longer releases&nbsp;updates to this emoji set.

😾 Pouting Cat on SoftBank 1997

😾 Pouting Cat on SoftBank 1997

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