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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes