😹 Meaning: What does the cat crying with joy emoji mean?

In everyday life, when we laugh a lot, we may even shed a few tears along with the laughter. The same is true when we're overjoyed, and tears may roll down our faces - this is called "crying with joy".

In this article, we talk about the emoji that expresses both kinds of emotions, which is the cat crying with joy emoji 😹, a variant of the face crying with joy emoji, also called laughing crying face emoji, whether it's this one 🤣 or that one 😂.

😹: The meanings and uses of the laughing cat emoji

This laughingly crying cat emoji is an anthropomorphized representation of the laughingly crying human face emoji and belongs to the group of smiley faces that express human affect around joy and laughter. He is depicted with a cat's face, two laughing eyes with two tears, an open mouth smiling.

At first glance, this emoji expresses the pleasure, great joy, but can also be used to talk about cat-related subjects. It's part of the happy, cheerful cat face emoticon family. The degree of hilarity and joy expressed by this emoji is more intense compared to that of the smiling cat emoji 😺.

This emoji is most often found in sentences expressing a laugh-out-loud reaction and of spontaneous cheerfulness. You can use it to respond to a joke, to comment on comical content on social networks, or to react to a situation.

The origin of the emoji

This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:

Emoji Proposition 1

• Number : L2/07-257
• Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
• Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis
• Year of proposal: 2007
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE

Emoji Proposition 2

• Number : L2/09-026
• Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
• Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
• Year of proposal: 2009
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED

Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.

Here are some examples of sentences in which you can insert the happy crying cat emoji:

1. You always manage to make me cry with laughter with your absurd jokes, it's crazy 😹 😹.
2. You didn't see how he was dressed this morning, I was dying of laughter 😹 😹 😹.
3. My neighbor's cat always comes scratching at my door after seeing me shopping the other day 😹.

Characteristics of the emoji 😹

Here are the characteristics of the crying cat emoji 😹:

Use the crying cat emoji 😹 in your messages or on your comments on social networks to laugh with your interlocutor and to express your joy.

Si vous souhaitez découvrir d’autres significations d’emoji de chat, je vous conseille de découvrir dès maintenant ce smiley : 😽