A close mirror of cat-02, with the cat now turned the other way. The face on the left is the same circled-㉨ cat-snout glyph, but the ﾐ whisker/tail has moved to the right side, suggesting the cat has turned its body to face away from us. The right face is the same happy person with ^ closed eyes, ∀ smiling mouth, ˵ chubby cheek, and ❀ flower.
The small variation in cat orientation matters in kaomoji art. With the tail on the right, the cat looks like it is settling in on its owner’s lap, facing outward. It is a subtle but real difference from cat-02 — the kind of difference long-time kaomoji users notice and appreciate.
This variant suits ‘cat just sat down on me and I cannot move’ content — that specific cat-owner experience of being held in place by a small animal. On TikTok and Discord it lands well in cat communities. On Instagram, it works in captions about working-from-home with pets.
In Japanese this kind of moment is called ねこにつかまる (neko ni tsukamaru — ‘caught by the cat’). Pair with words like うごけない (‘ugokenai’ — ‘I can’t move’), でもしあわせ (‘demo shiawase’ — ‘but I’m happy’), or ねこはおうさま (‘neko wa ousama’ — ‘cats are royalty’).