Cats and kittens can be so cute! You can use these Japanese cat emoticons for almost any occasion, like texting to friends or a significant other. Don’t you love being able to express yourself in so many different ways? Using these text emojis can really add a second dimension to what you’re trying to convey online.
Cat smileys are probably some of the oldest emoticons in internet history. The original cat kaomoji looked like this =^_^= and =(^_^)= with = being the whiskers ^ the happy eyes (some people may read this as ears!) and _ the mouth. Now with an ever increasing assortment of unicode characters available, cat emoticons can take on all sorts of exciting and unique expressions!
Cats have always been popular on the internet. When emojis officially became an international thing back in 2010 in the Unicode 6.0 update, lots of people started using cat emojis like the . But in all honesty, we still think the text cat kaomojis give off a lot more charm and personality!