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This is a list of common emoticons .

Contents

1 Western style

o 1.1 Common examples

2 East Asian style

o 2.1 examples

o 2.2 Complex examples

o 2.3 Western use of East Asian style

3 2channel style

o 3.1 Basic examples

4 Graphic emoticons

o 4.1 Examples

o 4.2 Animated examples

5 Emoticons in Unicode

6 See also

7 References

Western style

Traditionally, the emoticon in Western style is written from left to right, the way one reads and

writes in most Western cultures. Thus, most commonly, one will see the eyes on the left,

followed by the nose and mouth. To more easily recognise them, the reader should tilt their head

toward their left shoulder (or occasionally toward their right shoulder if the "top" of the emoticon

is toward the right).

Common examples

Icon Meaning

:) or :-) or :^) or =) or B) or 8)

or c8 or cB or =] or :] Example of eye / face variations of emoticons

:) Smiley

:D Smiling with all the teeth showing

38* Cow

D: Gaping or or Whining

8) Awestruck or Ecstatic or Orgasmic or Stoned

;) or *) Wink

X( Pout

8=====D Penis

( | ) Mooning

:( or 8c or Bc or B( or |8c or

|8C or :[ Frown

:P or :p

Tongue sticking out, or blowing a raspberry but without the

disdain. Usually interpreted as playful or coy. (Less commonly-

:Þ/:b)

|D Dorky smile

:O Surprise/

:/ or :-/ or :-\ or :\ or 8/ or 8\ or

>/ or >\ Skeptical / Annoyed / Uneasy / Apologetic

:| or :l Expressionless/Indifference/Disappointment/Deadpan

xP or XP Disgust / / Straining / Mischievous

xD or XD or :-D Laughing hard

:S or :s or ^o) Confusion / Crazy

:3 Cute / Cat-like Behavior

:E Vampire

:F Slobbering

:X or :# Sealed Lips / Embarrassment

:-* Kiss on the cheek

>:O or XO or :-(o) Angry / Yelling / Angry-surprised-face

>:( or >[ Angry / Grumpy

>:) or }:) Devious/devilish smile

0:) Innocence / Halo / Angel

<3 or x3♥ Heart / Love / Dark Love

</3 Broken heart

:'( or :,( or :_( or :*( or :…( Shedding a tear

@}->-- or --^--@ Rose

XD or XP Laughing hard

YD Laughing so hard one eye popped out

%-) Happy but confused

%-( Sad and confused

8-) Wide eyed

8-0 Shocked

:'-( Crying

:-* Kiss

X-( or X( Brain dead

:-& Tongue-tied

;^) Smirking smile

O___O KYUNGSO___O

:-} Grinning

:-\ or :-/ Undecided

<:} An emoticon to explain everything

>:L Angst

:9 Yum yum!

*\o/* Cheerleader

>:D or >=D Evil Smile

>:3 or >=3 Evil Kitty Smile

:0->-<|: Skateboarding

( = C Depressed

>o> or <o< offended

0u0 cute smile

\O/ Steve Holt!

East Asian style

Users from East Asia popularized a style of emoticons that can be understood without turning

one's head to the left.

These emoticons are usually found in a format similar to (*_*), where the asterisks indicate the

eyes , the central character, usually an underscore , the mouth, and the parentheses, the outline of

the face. A large number of different characters can be used to replace the eyes, which usually is

where the emoticon derives its emotive aspect (contrasting the Western emoticons' emoting

through the mouth). The emphasis on the eyes is reflected in the common usage of emoticons

that use only the eyes, eg ^^. Characters like hyphens or periods can replace the underscore; the

period is often used for a smaller, "cuter" mouth or to represent a nose, eg (^.^). Alternatively,

the mouth/nose can be left out entirely, eg (^^). The parentheses also can often be replaced with

braces , eg {^_^}. Many times, the parentheses are left out completely, eg ^^ or oO. A quotation

mark ", apostrophe ', or semicolon ; can be added to the emoticon to imply apprehension or

embarrassment, in the same way as the anime sweat drop . Many other characters can be

appended to also indicate arms or hands, eg <(^_^)> or ⊂( ﾟヮﾟ)⊃.

examples

Icon Meaning

t('.'t) kirby giving you the finger

d^_^b or d-_-b listening to music or thumbs up

)-0_0-( astonishment

(^_^) or (^-^) or (^ ^) or (^.^) smiley

(`_^) or (^_~) wink (or alternatively quirked eyebrow in latter

case)

(>_<) or (>.<) in pain, frustration

(>^^)> <(^^<) Hugging

(<_>) sad

(\_/) evil, furious

(-_-) semi-angry, upset, sighing

(H_H) pervert (from Japanese " hentai ")

(^o^) singing or laughing maniacally. Also looks like a

Moogle .

^3^ or o3o Kissy Face/ Fish Face

\(^o^)/ very excited (raising hands)

(-_-) or (~_~) or (~.~) or (=_=) annoyance, scorn, or tired (eyes shut), grumpy

(-_-;) or (^_^') or (^_^);; or ^_^" nervousness, or sweat-drop embarrassed;

(semicolon can be repeated)

(-_-#) or (-_-¤) or (-_-") or (-_-+) vein (used to show anger)

(¬_¬) or ¬3¬ or ¬w¬ or ¬.¬ or ¬¬ or ¬_¬ looking askance / rolling eyes, esp. when around

dumb behavior

(<_<) or (>_>) or (c_c) disbelief, looking around shiftily [when alternating

(>_>) and (<_<)]

(>_~) or (~_<) suspicious / accusatory glance

(>.o) or (o.<) or >.o after being smacked in the face

(;_;) or (T_T) or (TT.TT) or (ToT) crying

(@_@) addled, dazed, bemused, dizzy

`(•.°)~ crazy, druggy, trippin'

(o_O) or (o_0) or oO confused, surprised, disturbed

(o_@) extremely disturbed (more so than above)

(o_#) bruised

(#_#) clobbered

(0_<) flinch, nervous wink

(O_O) or Oo or °_° or º-º or °-° or shocked

(._.) or (,_,) disappointed, underwhelmed

($_$)

money eyes; thinking about money (also

sometimes changeable to other currency symbols

such as (¥_¥) or (₩_₩) )

(n_n) or (nn) happy, pleased

(u_u) or (uu) annoyance, sarcasm, sometimes disappointment

(v_v) or (vv) silent resignation

(/_\) profound dismay

*-* or *_* or *.* or *0* or *o* or *w* or

*x* or *¬* star-struck

(",) or (>_,>) or (<_,<) """or""" =J smirk

("o) side shocked

(-.-)zzZ or -_-zzZ sleeping

(o)_(o) alternative for tired; sometimes used to illustrate

crazed

;o; or ;O; crying loudly/shouting

T~T or TT_TT or Y_Y or TToTT or TT or

TT or T^T weeping

I_I "What?", mellow

owo or OwO or òwo surprise

nwn or nWn or ^w^ Happy, kitty face

xX or xx or x_x

:B or =:B Nerd, Rabbit

t(0.0t) or t(-_-t) or t(^^t) or ..|..('_') ..|.. double flipping the bird

(-_\\\) or (o.\\) or (^\\) or -_\\ or //_- or

(v_)/) or (Y_)/) or (T_)/) or (^_)/) Emo

(>'.')>=O____l_*__O=<('.'<) Playing Ping-Pong

(>'.')>\_/\_/____\*/\_/<('.'<) Playing Beer Pong

(>")>-[}-[}-[}-[SPLAT]-{]-{]-{]<("<) Pie fight!

õ.O Questioning Look, Confused, Weirded out

<(-'.'-<) (>-'.'-)> Kirby Dance

d(-'.'-d) "Thumbs Up" Kirby

U_U Seriousness

8D Creepyeol

-) or 0) cyclops

==!! Shocked

))<>(( Pooping back and forth, from the film Me and You

and Everyone We Know

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Shrug, "'Sup son?"

www (Any amount of w's) Implying what you're saying

is funny.

Complex examples

Icon Meaning

<@;D clown hat, curly hair, winking smiley face

(.Y.) boobs, breasts, tits

:(|) or @(O_o)@ Monkey/cheeky monkey

:-| Unemotional or "not funny"

\m/[(>.<)]\m/ rocking out to headphones

..V,(^_^) Peace!

(ô ô) boy (sometimes also used to indicate surprise)

f(O_o)f or [¬º-°]¬ zombie attack!

(ó.ò) surprised, scared

(ò.ó) angry

(ò.ô) quizzical or "Indeed" (designed to mimic Star Trek 's

Mr. Spock )

=^_^= or •^_^• or •^-^• blushing , or a cat face (mischievous)

=' т '= Lion/Cat

~<>" Mousey

--(*,Q><|

*^_^* or ^///^ blushing

fO_o scratching head

?_? confused/curious/not comprehending

^n_n^ catgirl or boy

c):{) smiling cowboy

d-_-b or p-_-q listening to music

~~~~>_<~~~~ weeping horribly

(9ò_ó)=@ or Q('.'Q) fighting, throwing a punch

Q(^.^Q) winner

b(~_^)d, d-(^_^)-b, (b^_^)b, etc. thumbs-up

q(-_-)p thumbs-down

\,,/(^_^)\,,/ happy rockin'

(¬_¬)/¯ "It's good... to go!"

\0-0/ wearing glasses (nerd)

!_! or T_T or ;__; 2 eyes crying.

(ρ_-)o sleepy / rubbing eyes

(>._.)ø or ø(._.<) writing

(>")> dancing

t(-_-t) or -_-*,,|, Giving the middle finger / flipping off.

(/.\) Shouldn't have said that...

\m/ Hand gesture - Rock'n'Roll ( corna ) or (" Hook 'em

Horns ")

\m/ |>_<| \m/ ROCK ON!!

~(O_O)~ or ~(O_o)~ Flying Spaghetti Monster .

\(O.0)/ or \(0.O)/ I dunno, lol.

ಠ_ಠ Look of disapproval

ಥ_ಥ Sad eyes

()xxxx{======> sword

L7++(+-)&(-+)++L7 Ball Joint robot with fists

¯\(©¿©)/¯ or ¯\(º o)/¯ (variant

¯\(°_0)/¯)

Shrug (the latter often accompanies the phrase "i dunno,

lol", as part of a meme)

d=(^_^)=b (>w<)bd(>w<) Thumbs up

q_q or Q_Q or QQ Crying

@_'-' Snail

<=O=(^^^)=O=> Plane

(x(x_(X_x(O_o)x_x)_X)x) Alive among zombies

(-(-_(-_-(O_o)-_-)_-)-) Awaken in the subway

[*v*] or [* - *] Cassette tape

~(_8^(|) Homer Simpson

(( ^(*o*^) ))

(vvv)<(^w^)>(vvv) Cat

Celebrating, Dancing

(-□-)︵* Peeing

(0 '_' )╯´´(╯_<º ) Bitch Slap

(V) ;,,; (V) Why not Zoidberg?

(ノ ಠ益 ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ or (╯°□°）╯︵

┻━┻ Table Flip; rage

' ' gun

Western use of East Asian style

English-language anime forums adopted those emoticons that could be used with the standard

ASCII characters available on western keyboards. Because of this, they are often called "anime

style" emoticons in the English-speaking Internet. They have since seen use in more mainstream

venues, including online gaming, instant-messaging, and other non-anime related forums.

Emoticons such as <(^_^)>, which include the parentheses, mouth or nose, and arms (especially

those represented by the inequality signs < or >) also are often referred to as "Kirbies" in

reference to their likeness to Nintendo 's video game character, Kirby . The parentheses are

usually dropped when used in the English language context, and the underscore of the mouth

may be extended as an intensifier, eg ^____^ for very happy.

Around 2007, a new wave of emoticons have appeared such as ( xD}<, :o|<, :D|<, ect.) which

use "}" or "|" for arms and "<", ">" or "v" as legs. Currently they are not as popular as most

emoticons but due to high use on certain MMORPGs their use may spread in the future.

2channel style

The Japanese language is usually encoded using double- byte character codes. As a result there is

a bigger variety of characters that can be used in emoticons, many of which cannot be

reproduced in ASCII . Most kaomoji contain Cyrillic and other foreign letters to create even

more complicated expressions analogous to ASCII art 's level of complexity. To type such

emoticons, the input editor that is used to type Japanese on a user's system is equipped with a

dictionary of emoticons, after which the user simply types the Japanese word (or something close

to it) that represents the desired emoticon to convert the input into such complicated emoticons.

Such expressions are known as Shift JIS art .

Users of 2channel in particular have developed a wide variety of unique emoticons using obscure

characters. Some have taken on a life of their own and become characters in their own right, like

Mona .

Basic examples

(ケ¬◟¬)ケ Awww yeah

(´･ω･`) OP/Denko

m9(^Д^) supercilious attitude, point and laugh

m(_ _)m kowtow as a sign of respect, or dogeza for

apology

（´・ω・｀） deflated

<`∀´> stereotypical Korean character

（｀ハ´） stereotypical Chinese character

(`･ω･´) feel perky

(´；ω；`) terribly sad

ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ be irritable

(＃ﾟ Д ﾟ) angry

（ ´Д｀） yelling, or panting

（ ﾟ Д ﾟ） surprised, or loudmouthed

┐('～`；)┌ don't know the answer

（´∀｀） carefree

（ ´_ゝ`） indifferent

Σ(゜д゜;) shocked

( ﾟ ヮﾟ) happy, upbeat

ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━!!!!! "It's here", a general expression of excitement

that something has appeared or happened.

⊂二二二（ ＾

ω ＾

）二⊃ "bu-n", being carefree and above, with arms

stretched out while running/soaring.

(*´Д`)ﾊｧﾊｧ Erotic stirring, haa haa

(((( ；ﾟ Д ﾟ))) Spook

Σ(ﾟ Д ﾟ) Huge surprise

( ´∀｀)σ)∀`) Jog someone's cheek

( ﾟ д ﾟ) Amazed

(´ー`)y-~~ Smoking

' ' ==(• )== ' ' Gunman

m9(・∀・) of intuition

('A`) Lonely

（ ´,_ゝ`) Depressed, unsatisfied (based on indifferent)

（´-`）.｡oO( ... ) Thinking

(ﾟ Д ﾟ;≡;ﾟ Д ﾟ) OMG WHUT

( ´д)ﾋｿ(´Д｀)ﾋｿ(Д｀ ) Whispers

（･∀･)つ⑩ Carrying money

⊂（ﾟ Д ﾟ⊂⌒｀つ≡≡≡(´⌒;;;≡≡≡ Sliding on belly, "whooaaa!!!"

(ﾟ д ﾟ) Unforeseen

(ﾟ⊿ﾟ) "I don't need it"

щ(ﾟ Д ﾟ щ) Why?!

ლ(ಠ益 ಠლ) YU NO?

（・∀・） Mocking, "good"

（・Ａ・） "That's bad"

(ﾟ∀ﾟ) Discharged drug-in-brain, goofing around, "A-

HYA!"

（ ´Д⊂ヽ Sad

エェェ(´д｀)ェェエ Not convincing

(￣ー￣) Simper, Snorlax

( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ / ＼/ ＼ Evil laugh (ahahaha...)

[ﾟ д ﾟ] Deflagged

♪┏(・o･)┛♪┗ ( ･o･) ┓♪┏ (･o･) ┛♪┗

(･o･ ) ┓♪┏(･o･)┛♪ Happy expressions, dancing to the music

d(*⌒▽⌒*)b Happy expression

STO or orz or OTZ or OTL Despair. The "O" or "o" represents one's head

on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso and

"S" or "z" or "L" forms the legs.

（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Overloaded, flipping over a table.

(╯°O°）╯FUS RO DAH! ==== ┻━┻ "Unrelenting force" table flip/throw. ( Skyrim

reference.)

(╯°O°）╯FUS RO DAH! ==== ☆。・:*>┼○ "Unrelenting force" into a person. ( Skyrim

reference.)

┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ) Calmly putting the table back in place.

(╬ ಠ益 ಠ) Extreme Distaste, meant to appear as an

exaggerated grimace.

(≧ロ≦) Shouting

(Θ Θ;) Pretending not to notice, asleep because of

boredom

お(^o^)や(^O^)す(^｡^)みぃ(^-^)ﾉﾞ "Goodnight"

(*ﾟﾉ O ﾟ)<ｵｵｵｵｫｫｫｫｫｫｫｰｰｰｰｰｲ! Calling out, "Ooooi!"

＼| ￣ヘ￣|／＿＿＿＿＿＿＿θ☆( *o*)/ Kick

（‐＾▽＾‐）オーホッホ Chuckle

= = =┌(;*´Д`)ﾉ Running

ヽ(´▽`)/ Cheers

◕ ‿ ◕ Cute Smile

(≧◡≦) Blushing and Happy

(・ω・｀ ) Raised eyebrow

(⌒▽⌒)☆ Ecstatic with a star

(・ー・) "Uhh"; No Comment; No Emotion

Ʒ Butterfly

✌(◠‿◠) Peace

◕‿‿◕ Cat face (the other way!)

(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ I see what you did there

♡ヽ(*´д｀*;;) Moe!

(｡♥‿♥｡) In love!

(✖╭╮✖) Dead

(。・_・。) Horrible

(⊙_◎) derp

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Sparkly sparkly!

(•_•) , ( •_•)>⌐■-■ , (⌐■_■) Horacio (1,2,3)

O___O Say what.

ಠ෴ಠ Adolf Hitler

ಥ‿ಥ Tears of joy

Happy Virus

| - ◉ ) ノ⌒* Take this; Stop staring; Coming from behind

the wall, tossing an object/sparkle

Graphic emoticons

Graphic emoticons (small images that often automatically replace typed text) are commonly used

instead of the older text variants, especially on Internet forums and instant messenger programs.

These are often heavily animated, some taking up to at least a full five seconds to fully loop, and

sometimes (mostly on instant messengers ) with sound embedded, to bring it to full life.

The common tradeoff that results in relatively small graphic emoticons on forums is the height of

the emoticon relative to the height of the text. Anything larger than the default size of the forum

typeface (1 em ) increases the line spacing which decreases the comprehension of the post thus

defeating the purpose of emoticon which is increasing the message value.

Usage of multiple emoticons in succession and "high" emoticons (relative to line height) is

frowned upon among forum users who prefer higher signal to noise ratio .

Examples

congratulate

confident

confused

crying

deep trouble

friendly

grossed out

hurt

innocent

hysterical

indifferent

mocking

nasty

odd, crazy, etc.

sad

shocked

skeptical

smile

smirking

upset

very sorry

yawning

Animated examples

Emoticons in Unicode

In Unicode, following code points contain emoticons: U+2639(☹), U+263A(☺), U+263B(☻).

See also

Emoticon

Smiley

References

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