Choosing a cat face
- Classic whiskered:
(=^･ω･^=)and(=^‥^=)are the standard cat faces, calm and friendly. - Paws up:
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅandฅ(＾・ω・＾ฅ)hold their paws in the air, for a playful “hi” or a pounce. - Moods:
(=｀ω´=)is a grumpy cat,(=ＴェＴ=)is crying,(ↀДↀ)✧is wide-eyed and startled, and/ᐠ - ˕ -マis dozing off. - Whole cats:
ᓚᘏᗢlies on its side, and/ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\sits with pointed ears.
Where the parts come from
Cat kaomoji pull in characters from all over Unicode. The paw ฅ is Thai, the mouth ﻌ is an Arabic letter form, the eyes ↀ are an old Roman numeral for one thousand, and the lying cat uses Canadian Aboriginal syllabics. That mix is why a cat face can look slightly different in each app: each character comes from whatever font has it.
Mixing cats with other faces
Cats pair well with the other moods: put ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ after a greeting, (=ＴェＴ=) after bad news, or ᓚᘏᗢ at the end of a lazy Sunday message. To swap a cat’s mood by hand, keep the whiskers and ears and change only the middle: (=^･ω･^=) becomes surprised as (=^･o･^=). Fellow cat people get the whole collection in one go if you copy your favourites and send them with Share result. For drawings of cats over several lines, open the cat text art page.