A surprised face next to a winking cat. The person (left) has ˶ chubby cheek-outlines, ╹ and ╹ small square eyes (one looking up surprised), and 0 a small round shocked open mouth. The cat (right) has ゝ a winking eye (the squiggle for closed eye), ᆽ cat-snout, ╹ open square eye on the right, and ❁ a flower decoration.
The joke in this kaomoji is unmistakable: a cat is winking at a person, and the person is surprised at being winked at. The asymmetric eye treatment on the cat (one closed, one open) plus the open-mouth surprise on the person tells the whole story. It is a tiny gag in two glyphs.
Use it for posts about cats doing unexpected human-like things: a cat that seemed to wink at you, a cat photo with one eye closed, content where the cat is the unexpected star. On TikTok captions it pairs with funny cat clips. On Twitter/X it suits “my cat did this” threads. On Discord it works as a reaction to cat-meme content.
In Japanese the matching expression is うぃんく (winku — borrowed “wink”) and the reaction えっ (‘eh?’ — wait, what). Pair this kaomoji with phrases like うちのねこあたまいい (‘my cat is smart’), いまウィンクした？ (‘did you just wink?’), or もうかわいい (‘too cute’).