List of common emoticons
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This is a list of common emoticons.
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[edit] 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).
[edit] Common examples
| Icon | Meaning |
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| :) or :-) or :^) or =) or B) or 8) or :] | Example of eye / face variations of emoticons |
| :) | Smiley |
| ;) | Wink |
| X( | Poutyface |
| :( | Frown |
| :D | Wide grin |
| :P or :p | Tongue sticking out, or blowing a raspberry (Less commonly- :Þ/:b) |
| :O | Surprise/Shock |
| :/ or :\ | Skeptical / Annoyed / Uneasy |
| :| | Expressionless / Indifference |
| xP or XP | Disgust / Dead / Straining / Mischievous |
| xD or XD | Laughing hard |
| :S or :s | Confusion |
| :] | Smirk |
| :[ | Serious / Sad |
| :*) | Blushing |
| S) or s) | Rolling eyes |
| :X or:# | Sealed Lips / Embarrassment |
| :* | Kiss |
| >:O | Angry / Yelling |
| >:( | Angry / Grumpy |
| >:) | Devious |
| 0:) | Innocence / Halo / Angel |
| D: | Dismay or distressed (read right to left) |
| <3 | Heart / Love |
| </3 | Broken heart |
| :'( or:,( or :_( or :*( or :…( | Shedding a tear |
| :-d or :-q | Trying to lick your nose |
| 8^B | Feeling Nerdy |
[edit] 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, e.g. ^^. Characters like hyphens or periods can replace the underscore; the period is often used for a smaller, "cuter" mouth or to represent a nose, e.g. (^.^). Alternatively, the mouth/nose can be left out entirely, e.g. (^^). The parentheses also can often be replaced with braces, e.g. {^_^}. Many times, the parentheses are left out completely, e.g. ^^ 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, e.g. <(^_^)> or ⊂( ﾟ ヮﾟ)⊃.
[edit] Simple examples
[edit] Complex examples
| <(^.^)> or (>'-')> | Kirby |
| </(^.^)\> | Zelda |
| d^_^b or d-_-b | listening to music |
| )-0_0-( | astonishment |
| (^_^) or (^-^) or (^ ^) or (^.^) | smiley |
| (`_^) or (^_~) | wink (or alternatively quirked eyebrow in latter case) |
| (>_<) or (>_>) | in pain, frustration |
| (<_>) | sad |
| (\_/) | evil, furious |
| (^_/) | sexy pirate |
| (-_-) | semi-angry, upset, sighing |
| (H_H) | pervert (from Japanese "hentai") |
| (^o^) | singing or laughing maniacally |
| \(^o^)/ | very excited (raising hands) |
| (-_-) or (~_~) or (~.~) or (=_=) | annoyance, scorn, or tired (eyes shut), grumpy |
| (-_-;) or (^_^') or (^_^);; or ^_^" | nervousness, or sweatdrop embarrassed; (semicolon can be repeated) |
| (-_-#) or (-_-¤) or (-_-") or (-_-+) | vein (used to show anger) |
| (¬_¬) or ¬3¬ or ¬w¬ or ¬.¬ or ¬¬ or ¬_¬ | looking askance / rolling eyes, esp. when around dumb behavior |
| (<_<) or (>_>) or (c_c) | disbelief, looking around shiftily [when alternating (>_>) and (<_<)] |
| (>_~) or (~_<) | suspicious / accusatory glance |
| (>.o) or (o.<) or >.o | after being smacked in the face |
| (;_;) or (T_T) or (TT.TT) or (ToT) | crying |
| (@_@) | addled, dazed, bemused |
| `(•.°)~ | crazy, druggy, trippin' |
| (o_O) or (o_0) | confused, surprised, disturbed |
| (o_@) | extremely disturbed (more so than above) |
| (o_#) | bruised |
| (#_#) | clobbered |
| (0_<) | flinch, nervous wink |
| (O_O) or O.o or °_° | shocked |
| (._.) or (,_,) | disappointed, underwhelmed |
| (^3^) or (^ 3^) | kiss, mocking, mischievous |
| ($_$) | money eyes; thinking about money (also sometimes changeable to other currency symbols such as (¥_¥) or (₩_₩) ) |
| (x_x) or (+_+) or (K_O) | dead, exhausted or knocked out; giving up, lost, confused |
| (n_n) or (n.n) | happy, pleased |
| (u_u) or (u.u) | annoyance, sarcasm, sometimes disappointment |
| (v_v) or (v.v) | silent resignation |
| (9_9) | gazing upward |
| (e_e) | mischief, distrust, exasperation |
| (e_o) or (o_e) | eye twitching |
| (/_\) | profound dismay |
| *-* or *_* or *.* or *0* or *o* or *w* or *x* or *¬* | star-struck |
| (",) or (>_,>) or (<_,<) | 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 T.T or T-T or T^T | weeping |
| I_I | "What?", mellow |
| owo or OwO or òwo | surprise |
| nwn or nWn or ^w^ | Happy, kitty face |
| n//n | Proud |
| x.X or x.x or x_x | Dead |
| :B | Nerd |
| 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 |
| *0* | Surprised Gasp |
| õ.O | Questioning Look, Confused, Weirded out |
| <('.'<) (>'.')> | Kirby Dance |
| t('.'t) | Kirby "Middle Finger" |
| \m/[(>.<)]\m/ | rocking out to headphones |
| ..V,(^_^) | Peace! |
| (ô ô) | boy (sometimes also used to indicate surprise) |
| f(O_o)f | zombie attack! |
| (ó.ò) | surprised, scared |
| (ò.ó) | angry |
| (ó.ô) | quizzical or "Indeed" (designed to mimic Star Trek's Mr. Spock) |
| (╥_─) -_-; -_-' ¬_¬ | annoyed, hiding frustration, dread |
| =^_^= | blushing, or a cat face (mischievous) |
| =' т '= | Lion/Cat |
| ~<>" | Mousey |
| *^_^* or ^///^ | blushing |
| fO_o | scratching head |
| ?_? | confused/curious/not comprehending |
| ^n_n^ | catgirl or boy |
| d-_-b | listening to music |
| ~~~~>_<~~~~ | weeping horribly |
| (9ò_ó)=@ | fighting, throwing a punch |
| Q(^.^Q) | winner |
| w-('u')-w | Kilroy was here (extensible) |
| 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 | 2 eyes crying. |
| (ρ_-)o | sleepy / rubbing eyes |
| (>._.)ø or ø(._.<) | writing |
| (>")> | dancing |
| ><((((º> | Something fishy. |
| t(-_-t) or -_-*,,|, | Giving the middle finger / flipping off. |
| (/.\) | Shouldn't have said that... |
| >KO)-> | Frontways Cupid, alternately, USB dongle goblin. |
| \m/ | Hand gesture - Rock'n'Roll (corna) or ("Hook 'em Horns") |
| ~.~ | irfan *naf |
| ~(O_O)~ or ~(O_o)~ | Flying Spaghetti Monster. |
| \(O.0)/ or \(0.O)/ | I dunno, lol. |
| ಠ_ಠ | Staring eyes |
| 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 "dunno, lol", as part of a meme) |
| 3===つ O: | Oral Sex |
| &_!)~ | Pimp |
| d=(^_^)=b (>w<)b d(>w<) | Thumbs up |
[edit] 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, e.g. ^____^ for very happy.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Basic examples
| m9(^Д^) | supercilious attitude |
| m(_ _)m | bowing |
| （´・ω・｀） | deflated |
| <｀∀´> | stereotypical Korean character |
| （｀ハ´） | stereotypical Chinese character |
| (`･ω･´) | feel perky |
| (´；ω；`) | terribly sad |
| ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ | peace of mind |
| 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", or flying, soaring, being carefree and above |
| (*´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 |
| ;y=ｰ( ﾟдﾟ)･∵. | Gun suicide |
| m9(・∀・) | Flash of intuition |
| ('A`) | Character to poke fun at people without a relationship |
| （ ´,_ゝ`) | Depressed, unsatisfied (based on indifferent) |
| （´-`）.｡oO( ... ) | Thinking |
| (ﾟДﾟ;≡;ﾟДﾟ) | Impatience |
| ( ´д)ﾋｿ(´Д｀)ﾋｿ(Д｀ ) | Panting, gasping |
| （･∀･)つ⑩ | Carrying money |
| ⊂（ﾟДﾟ⊂⌒｀つ≡≡≡(´⌒;;;≡≡≡ | moving on belly, "whooaaa!!!" |
| (ﾟдﾟ) | Unforeseen |
| (ﾟ⊿ﾟ) | "I don't need it" |
| щ(ﾟДﾟщ) | Come on |
| （・∀・） | 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 |
| (´・∀・`) | "Heh" |
| (￣ー￣) | Simper, Snorlax |
| ( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ｱﾊﾊ八八ﾉヽﾉヽﾉヽﾉ ＼ / ＼/ ＼ | laughs evilly (ahahaha...) |
| [ﾟдﾟ] | Deflagged |
| ＼(^o^)／ | Become to lost life |
| ♪┏(・o･)┛♪┗ ( ･o･) ┓♪┏ ( ) ┛♪┗ (･o･ ) ┓♪┏(･o･)┛♪ | Happy expressions |
| ┌| ∵|┘└| ∵|┐┌| ∵|┘└| ∵|┐┌| ∵|┘└| ∵|┐ | Happy expressions |
| d(*⌒▽⌒*)b | Happy expression |
| STO or orz or OTZ | Despair. The "O" or "o" represents one's head on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso and "S" or "z" forms the legs. |
| (´┏_┓｀) | Panda |
| (╬ ಠ益ಠ) | Extreme Distaste, meant to appear as an exaggerated grimace. |
| (≧ロ≦) | Shouting |
| (●｀З´●) | Resistant |
| (ΘεΘ;) | 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 |
| ε=ε=ε=┌(;*´Д`)ﾉ | Running |
| %P | crossed eyes |
| (///_-) | Emo, reply to a needless rant |
| (.)(.) | Boobs |
[edit] 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.
[edit] Examples
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congratulate |  |
confident |  |
confused |  |
crying |  |
deep trouble |  |
friendly |
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grossed out |  |
hurt |  |
innocent |  |
hysterical |  |
indifferent |  |
mocking |
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nasty |  |
odd, crazy, etc. |  |
sad |  |
shocked |  |
skeptical | ||
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smile |  |
smirking |  |
upset |  |
very sorry |  |
yawning |
[edit] Animated examples
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[edit] Emoticons in Unicode
In Unicode, following code points contain emoticons: U+2639(☹), U+263A(☺), U+263B(☻).
