Like human face emojis, cat face emojis also convey different affects and are commonly used in online conversations and on comments on social networks. You can use them to convey your joy, fear, sadness, humor, among other things. In this guide, we talk about the meaning, origin, usage examples and characteristics of the cat howling in fear 🙀 emoji.
The origin of the emoji 🙀
This emoji is the result of a proposal by 2007 and of 2009 details of which are given below:
🙀 Emoji Proposition 1
- Number : L2/07-257
- Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
- Suggested by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis
- Proposal year: 2007
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposition : 753
- Folder: No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE
Emoji suggestion 2 🙀
- Number: L2/09-026
- Name: Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
- Suggested by: Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
- Proposal year: 2009
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposition: 753
- Dossier : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED
The proposal L2/07-257(2007), L2/09-026(2009) has been approved by the Board of Directors. Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02, it was released in Emoji 1.0 version.
🙀 Emoji Meanings and Uses
The tired cat emoji, also known as the screaming cat head emoji, or the frightened cat belongs to the family of emojis using the figure of the cat to express various human affects through anthropomorphism. It's depicted with two particularly bulging white eyes with no pupils, a gaping mouth, and two pasties on its cheek as a sign of shock.
This emoji is used to express shock or theexcitement after receiving a terrible message. It can also mean fear or fright. In fact, it's a variant of scared screaming face emoji 😱. Like the latter, the tired cat emoji is also widely used on social networks to express the affects revolving around amazement, fear, terror, dread and shock.
In addition to its use to express unease and shock, the cat face emoji screaming in fear can also be used to indicate a phobia.
Here are some phrases you can use this emoji with:
- A snake ? Oh no 🙀!
- I saw the horror movie you told me about last time, I almost couldn't make it to the end, I was so scared 🙀 🙀 🙀.
Characteristics of the emoji 🙀
Here are the characteristics of the cat face emoji that screams in fear 🙀:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | tired cat |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | cat-face |
| Apple designation | Head of cat screaming in fear |
| code point | U+1F640 Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128576 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Surprised-worried-face-oh-tired-tired-cat |
| Other names |
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Use the scaredy cat emoji 🙀 in your messages or comments to express your shock or discomfort at a piece of information or situation, or to show your phobia of something or some behavior. To spice up your telephone conversation, discover the meaning of this emoji 😢.
