U+1F431 · emoji since 2010
The cat face is for cat people, cat pictures, and the specific honor of being chosen by a cat. It's soft, smug, and entirely in charge.
It captions nap photos, knocked over glasses, and 3am zoomies. Dog people text plans, cat people text 🐱 and you understand.
In texting, 🐱 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🐱 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Cat Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the cat face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🐱 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.