Cat Symbol Copy Paste

Press Copy to copy the cat, or pick from 12 cat emoji, big cats, hieroglyphs, text cats, meows and combos.

🐱Cat faceU+1F431Ready to copy

55 cats. Tap one to copy it.

Cat emoji 3

Cat faces with moods 9

Big cats and paw prints 5

Single characters 7

One-line text cats 10

Meow, spelled out 8

Cat combos 13

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How it works

Unicode has 12 cat emoji and only one, Cat, has a text form. So cat symbol copy and paste here also means a seated hieroglyph cat, 猫, ten one-line text cats, meow in five letter styles and 13 named combos.

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Kitty, halloween, ironic

Kitty finds Cat face, halloween finds Black cat and two combos, and ironic finds Cat with wry smile: the search box reads Unicode's own search words. For cat emojis copy and paste in bulk, Nine lives is nine cats in one tap.

What survives the trip

Ten of the 12 cat emoji date from Emoji 0.6, the oldest version. Black cat is the newcomer, from Emoji 13.0, and can come apart on the way. =^..^=, ~(=^..^) and :3 are plain ASCII and arrive anywhere text does. The hieroglyphs need a font that has them.

Tips

Cat's text form is a simple shape coloured like the words around it, if the font has one.
猫 is a Han character and ฅ a Thai letter: worth a try where a name field refuses emoji.

Questions and answers

Is there a cat font?

No font can be pasted: it lives on the device, so a cat font generator has nothing to hand over. What pastes is styled Unicode letters beside a cat. Meow is here in five styles, and the small caps tool restyles your own word.

Why did the black cat emoji paste as a cat and a black square?

Because that is what it is made of: Cat, U+1F408, a zero width joiner, U+200D, and Black large square, U+2B1B. UTS #51, Unicode's emoji report, says a system with no single picture ignores the joiner and shows the separate emoji. Nothing was lost.

Why does searching cat keep the tigers but drop the lion?

CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, gives cat to 15 emoji: the 12 cats, Tiger face, Tiger and Leopard. Lion gets mane, roar and rawr, and no cat. It sits under Big cats anyway. The nine cats with moods are filed with the smileys.

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Cat emoji 3

Black cat U+1F408 U+200D U+2B1B. Three code points: cat, zero width joiner, black large square. An app that cannot join them shows a cat next to a black square. CLDR lists it under halloween, unlucky and meow. Emoji 13.0.
Cat U+1F408. The whole animal, where Cat face is only the head. The only cat with a text form, so the Text style switch changes this one and nothing else. Emoji 0.7.
Cat face U+1F431. The default cat. CLDR files it under kitten and kitty as well as cat. Emoji 0.6.

Cat faces with moods 9

Cat with tears of joy U+1F639. Laughing until it leaks. CLDR lists lol among its search words. Emoji 0.6.
Cat with wry smile U+1F63C. The smirk. CLDR lists ironic among its search words. Emoji 0.6.
Crying cat U+1F63F. One tear. Unicode has no loudly crying cat, so this is as sad as a cat gets. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning cat U+1F63A. The plain happy one. CLDR files it under smile and under mouth and open. Emoji 0.6.
Grinning cat with smiling eyes U+1F638. The same grin, with the eyes curved into a smile of their own. Emoji 0.6.
Kissing cat U+1F63D. Filed under kiss, and under closed and eyes. Emoji 0.6.
Pouting cat U+1F63E. The cat is displeased. CLDR gives it four search words and pouting is one of them. Emoji 0.6.
Smiling cat with heart-eyes U+1F63B. For the few things a cat approves of. Filed under love. Emoji 0.6.
Weary cat U+1F640. Named weary, but CLDR also files it under surprised and oh. Emoji 0.6.

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Big cats and paw prints 5

Leopard U+1F406. Filed under big and cat, like the two tigers, and under predator. Emoji 1.0.
Lion U+1F981. Not a cat, as far as CLDR is concerned: its search words run to mane, roar and rawr, and never to cat. Emoji 1.0.
Paw prints U+1F43E. Plural by name and owned by no animal: CLDR lists paw, paws and feet, so they fit a dog as well. Emoji 0.6.
Tiger U+1F405. The full-body tiger. Also filed under cat. Emoji 1.0.
Tiger face U+1F42F. CLDR files it under big and under cat, so a search for cat finds it. Emoji 0.6.

Single characters 7

Cat in Chinese and Japanese U+732B CJK unified ideograph-732B. Unihan defines it as cat: māo in Mandarin, neko in Japanese. Unicode indexes it under radical 94, which is the dog radical.
Cat in traditional Chinese U+8C93 CJK unified ideograph-8C93. The traditional form of the same word. This one sits under radical 153, which Unicode names badger.
Egyptian hieroglyph cat U+130E0 Egyptian hieroglyph E013. Unicode describes it as a cat, seated, tail curled over the body towards the back. It shows as an empty box where no font has hieroglyphs.
Hieroglyph lion, lying down U+130ED Egyptian hieroglyph E023. Described by Unicode as a lion, lying down, tail curled over the body. The loaf position, at scale.
Hieroglyph panther U+130EE Egyptian hieroglyph E024. Described by Unicode as a panther or leopard, standing.
Meow in one Chinese character U+55B5 CJK unified ideograph-55B5. Unihan defines it as the mew of the cat. Mandarin reading: miāo.
Raised paw (Thai letter) U+0E05 Thai character kho khon. A Thai letter borrowed for its shape. Text cats hold it up as a paw on either side of the face.

One-line text cats 10

/ᐠ - ˕ -マ Asleep, tail tucked in
/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ Pointed ears, blank stare
=^..^= Keyboard cat, plain ASCII
~(=^..^) Keyboard cat with a tail
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ Both paws up
ᓚᘏᗢ Whole cat in three Canadian syllabics
ᓚᘏᗢ ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ Cat after a mouse
₍^. .^₎⟆ Small cat, tail made of a bag delimiter
≽^•⩊•^≼ Whiskered face from math signs
:3 Cat mouth in two keystrokes

Meow, spelled out 8

ᴍᴇᴏᴡ Meow in small capitals
ᵐᵉᵒʷ Meow in small raised letters
ⓜⓔⓞⓦ Meow in circles
ねこ Cat in Japanese hiragana: neko, the reading Unihan gives for 猫 on this page
ニャー Meow in Japanese (nyā)
야옹 Meow in Korean (yaong)
𝓶𝓮𝓸𝔀 Meow in bold script
ｍｅｏｗ Meow, spaced wide

Cat combos 13

Black cat on a broom Black cat, then broom. The witch is out of frame.
Black cat, full moon Black cat, then full moon. Halloween in two emoji. The cat is the three-part sequence, so check how it lands.
Cat and mouse Cat, then mouse. The oldest plot there is.
Cat loaf Cat, then bread. Paws tucked under, fully baked.
Cat nap Cat face, then ZZZ. For a status that means do not disturb.
Cat, with love Cat face, then red heart. A reply to the cat photo someone just sent.
Fish dinner Cat face, then fish. Dinner, seen from the cat side of the table.
If it fits Cat, then package. A box arrived. The cat has claimed the box.
Nine lives Cat 9 times. One for each.
Paw trail Paw prints 3 times. Evidence across a clean floor.
Three moods before breakfast Grinning cat, then cat with wry smile, then pouting cat. The bowl was empty.
Window watch Cat, then window, then bird. Hours of television.
Yarn incident Cat, then yarn. What happened to the knitting.

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 17 emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The 12 cat emoji are every entry of that file with cat in its name: the cat-face subgroup (9) and cat face, cat and black cat. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR lists the word cat for 15 emoji: those 12, tiger face, tiger and leopard, but not lion. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). That an unsupported joined sequence such as black cat falls back to its separate emoji is from UTS #51, Unicode Emoji, version 18.0, section 2.5 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. The three hieroglyph descriptions are the kEH_Desc values of Unikemet.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unikemet.txt). The meanings, readings and radicals of the three Han characters are the kDefinition, kMandarin, kJapaneseKun and kRSUnicode values of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip), with radical numbers resolved through CJKRadicals.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/CJKRadicals.txt). Wikipedia's List of emoticons records :3 as a cat face and a paws-up cat built on the Thai letter kho khon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons); its article Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias records nyā and yaong as the Japanese and Korean cat sounds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias). The 10 text cats, the 8 words and the 13 combos are this site's own choice, the styled words are assembled from character names, and the combo names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are ours. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, and the Han definitions are Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in our own words and credited in the source line.