😹 Cat with Tears of Joy
The 😹 Cat with Tears of Joy emoji (U+1F639) is part of the Smileys category, where it sits in the Cat Face group alongside 8 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords cat, laugh, and cry, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express cat in a message, caption, or comment, 😹 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of laugh, and cry. Like every emoji, the Cat with Tears of Joy renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F639 is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 😹 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 😹 in the Cat Face group include 😺 Grinning Cat, 😸 Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes, 😻 Smiling Cat with Heart-Eyes, 😼 Cat with Wry Smile, 😽 Kissing Cat, 🙀 Weary Cat, and it is frequently combined with 😺 Grinning Cat and 😸 Grinning Cat with Smiling Eyes in messages. The Smileys category contains 89 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.