A cat face with furrowed or angled eyebrows and a downturned mouth, giving an angry, irritated, or displeased expression. A cat variant of 😠 Angry Face and 😡 Enraged Face, it was sometimes used to represent the internet meme and celebrity Grumpy Cat (RIP 🤍).

Most platforms depict a yellow or orange cat, often with tabby markings, though Huawei uses orange-and-white fur and Honor has tricolor calico-like coloring.

Apple’s design previously displayed the face in profile, as did Twitter's and LG's. Microsoft's design previously more closely resembled 😟 Worried Face than 😠 Angry Face. Early Samsung designs depicted a gray cat, as did LG before its emoji set was discontinued.

This emoji predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003, where it was animated to turn its head away in anger. This likely influenced the rightward-facing profile designs later used by several other platforms. au by KDDI introduced this emoji as part of a broader group of cat-face emojis depicting different emotional expressions, a lineage that directly resulted in the unique range of cat-face emojis available today.

Pouting Cat was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Pouting Cat Face" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.