U+1F638 "😸" Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
😸
U+1F638 "😸" Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes is a popular emoji depicting a cheerful cat with a wide, toothy grin and eyes that curve into happy crescents, which conveys playful contentment, amusement, or mild mischief. It belongs to the "Cat Face" subset within the "Smileys & Emotion" block, and its design is derived from a combination of a smiling face and feline features. The character is often used in digital communication to express joy, silliness, or a sense of smug satisfaction, and it is commonly associated with the "Cheshire Cat" from Alice in Wonderland due to its broad, knowing smile.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F638 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Grinning Cat Face with Smiling Eyes |
| Block | Emoticons |
| 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 0x98 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude38 |