Grinning Cat

The grinning cat icon represents a cat with a grinning expression, symbolizing happiness, joy, and playfulness. It is often used to represent a friendly or approachable tone.

In real-world applications, this icon appears in messaging apps, social media platforms, and emotional expression tools. For example, it may be used to represent happiness, friendliness, or approachability.

From a UX perspective, the grinning cat icon communicates a sense of joy and playfulness. It helps users understand that they are interacting with a friendly or approachable system.

Grinning Cat is one of 2,162 icons in Noto Emoji (v1), made by Google Inc and released under Apache 2.0. It is drawn on a 128 × 128 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds GrinningCatIcon to components/icons/noto-v1-grinning-cat.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed GrinningCatIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Grinning Cat icon, or any of 2,162 Noto Emoji (v1) icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 128 × 128 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Grinning Cat", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. GrinningCatIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GrinningCatIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. Apache 2.0 allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Apache 2.0 only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Noto Emoji (v1), Google Inc and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Grinning Cat. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are animal, smile, joy, happy, playfulness and cat. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Grinning Cat in another set.

Noto Emoji (v1) draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Grinning Cat's siblings in it.