U+1F639 "😹" Cat Face with Tears of Joy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
😹
U+1F639 "😹" Cat Face with Tears of Joy is a yellow cartoon cat face featuring a wide, laughing grin and large eyes from which tears of joy stream, often used to convey that something is so extremely funny or delightful that it brings the user to hysterical, tearful laughter. Part of the Emoticons block in Unicode, this emoji blends the familiar "face with tears of joy" concept with feline features, making it popular in digital communication to express laughing fits, overwhelming amusement, or a playful, cat-themed sense of humor. Its design varies slightly across platforms but consistently emphasizes the contrast between the cat's ears and whiskers and the intense, joyful crying expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F639 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Cat Face with Tears of Joy |
| 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F639 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude39 |