U+1F408 "🐈" Cat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🐈
U+1F408 "🐈" Cat is a pictographic representation of a domestic cat, often depicted in a neutral, seated or standing posture across different platforms, and it falls under the "Animals & Nature" category within the Unicode standard. This character is part of a larger set of animal emojis and is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize pets, cuteness, independence, or feline traits, as well as to refer to actual cats in text messages and social media. Its design can vary slightly between operating systems, such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft, but it consistently maintains a recognizable feline silhouette with whiskers, ears, and a tail.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F408 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Cat |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🐈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🐈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x90 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F408 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc08 |