😺 Meaning: What does the smiling cat head emoji mean?

We use emojis to express how we really feel about the person talking to us. They are used mainly on social networks, on comments and in messages on whatsappon Facebook, among others. As with any kind of written communication, people understand much more quickly with images, so it's the same with the use of emojis.

Here we tell you all about the meaning of the smiling cat emoji 😺a fun version of the smiling face emoji 😃. Zoom in.

😺: The meaning and uses of the smiling cat emoji

The smiling cat emoji is present on almost all chat platforms, but its appearance can sometimes be different (on some messengers, it is slightly tabby, usually yellow in color).

He is depicted with a smiling cat face and expresses the joy, enthusiasm, happiness, satisfaction and fun. It can also express support and benevolence, to show that you listen to your interlocutor and pay particular attention to your exchanges.

In this way, it also makes it possible to mark the complicity and create a relaxed atmosphere. In fact, using this emoji is a way of maintaining communication between you and the person you're talking to, while showing assent and approval.

When you use it repeatedly in messages, you create an effect of highlighting the affect you want to convey, be it the joy and good humouror other. You can also use it in combination with other emojis in the same family, such as

The cat emoji smiling with laughing eyes 😸 and the cat emoji crying with laughter 😹 to create a crescendo effect, i.e. to share a growing emotion with your interlocutor (laughter towards the laughing furnace).

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 two example sentences with the smiling cat emoji:

1. Go ahead tell, I'm listening to you 😺.
2. I have something to tell you. I'm so happy 😺 😺 😺.

Characteristics of the 😺 emoji

Here are the characteristics of the smiling cat emoji 😺:

Use the smiling cat emoji 😺 in your messages or on your comments to express a slight amusement, to express your kindness, but also to convey a state of relaxation and to mark your complicity with your interlocutor.