English

emojicat

From emoji + cat.

A compound of emoji + cat

Middle Chinese 文字

Japanese 文字 ‘a letter, a character’

Japanese 絵文字 ‘emoji: emoticons that originated in Japanese…’

English emoji

Proto-Germanic *kattuz

Proto-West Germanic *kattu

Old English catt ‘male cat’

Middle English cat ‘cat’

English cat

Today it means

noun A style of art and animation where anthropomorphic animal characters are drawn using emojis, popular in short-form video.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / emojicat