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Glyph for U+1F63A
Source: Noto Emoji

U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth

U+1F63A was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block U+1F600 to U+1F64F Emoticons in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F63A behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “grinning cat” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: cat, face, grinning, mouth, open, smile.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0E Variation Selector-15: 😺︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

On Youtube this character is sometimes wrongly displayed as U0001f63a.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The cat (Felis catus) is a domestic species of small carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species in the family Felidae and is commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from the wild members of the family. Cats are commonly kept as house pets but can also be farm cats or feral cats; the feral cat ranges freely and avoids human contact. Domestic cats are valued by humans for companionship and their ability to kill vermin. About 60 cat breeds are recognized by various cat registries.

The cat is similar in anatomy to the other felid species: it has a strong flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp teeth, and retractable claws adapted to killing small prey like mice and rats. Its night vision and sense of smell are well developed. Cat communication includes vocalizations like meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting as well as cat-specific body language. Although the cat is a social species, it is a solitary hunter. As a predator, it is crepuscular, i.e. most active at dawn and dusk. It can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small mammals. It also secretes and perceives pheromones.

Female domestic cats can have kittens from spring to late autumn in temperate zones and throughout the year in equatorial regions, with litter sizes often ranging from two to five kittens. Domestic cats are bred and shown at events as registered pedigreed cats, a hobby known as cat fancy. Population control of cats may be achieved by spaying and neutering, but their proliferation and the abandonment of pets has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, contributing to the extinction of entire bird, mammal, and reptile species.

It was long thought that cat domestication began in ancient Egypt, where cats were venerated from around 3100 BC, but recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that their domestication occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC.

As of 2021, there were an estimated 220 million owned and 480 million stray cats in the world. As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned and around 42 million households owning at least one cat. In the United Kingdom, 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats as of 2020.

Representations

System Representation
128570
UTF-8 F0 9F 98 BA
UTF-16 D8 3D DE 3A
UTF-32 00 01 F6 3A
URL-Quoted %F0%9F%98%BA
HTML hex reference 😺
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 😺

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 6.0 (2010)
Unicode Name SMILING CAT FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH
Unicode 1 Name
Block Emoticons
General Category Other Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Case Folding Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+1F63A Smiling Cat Face with Open Mouth
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U