List of emoticons
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.
Emoticons can generally be divided into three groups: Western or horizontal ; Eastern or vertical ; and 2channel style. The most common explanation for these different styles is that in the East, the eyes play the primary role in facial expressions, while in the West, the whole face tends to be used.
Western
Western style emoticons are mostly written from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. One will most commonly see the eyes on the left, followed by the nose " for a smiley face or "(" for a sad face. One can also add a "| class="wikitable"! colspan="10" | Icon !! Emoji !! Meaning
Eastern
Eastern emoticons generally are not rotated sideways, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional complexity. These emoticons first arose in Japan, where they are referred to as kaomoji.The base form consists of a sequence of an opening round parenthesis, a character for the left eye, a character for the mouth or nose, a character for the right eye and a closing round parenthesis. The parentheses are often omitted for well-known kaomoji. The mouth/nose part may also be omitted if the eyes are much more important.
Most East Asian characters are usually inscribed in an invisible square with a fixed width. Although there is also a history of half-width characters, many Japanese, Korean and Chinese fonts include full-width forms for the letters of the basic roman alphabet and also include digits and punctuation as found in US ASCII. These fixed-width forms are also available in Unicode. Mostly depending on the input mode available, kaomoji may use these Eastern forms of Western characters, but hardly ever rely on any particular width to be discernible.
| Icon | Emoji | Meaning |
| gap=1.5em |> | | ?? | Troubled |
| ? | Baby | |
| gap=1.5em gap=1.5em gap=1.5em ^^;^_^; | ???? | Nervous, embarrassed, troubled, shy, sweat drop |
| ? | Embarrassed, flushed | |
| gap=1.5em y-.o○ y-°°° | ? | Smoking |
| zzz | ?? | Sleeping |
| gap=1.5em -☆ | ?? | Wink |
| gap=1.5em ) gap=1.5em | | ???? | Confused |
| Ultraman | ||
| gap=1.5em ^_^ / ／ ／ / gap=1.5em / / 丿 ∩∩ ^ω^ | ?????? | Joyful |
| gap=1.5em __ __ <> gap=1.5em |mm |mm | ? | Kowtow as a sign of respect, or dogeza for apology |
| 凸 | ? | Middle fingers |
| gap=1.5em ＼ ／ | ? | Questioning |
| gap=1.5em | | gap=1.5em ;_; ;-; ;n; ;; gap=1.5em Q.Q T.T TnT Q_Q | ?? | Sad, crying |
| gap=1.5em !! | ????? | |
| ??? | Tired | |
| gap=1.5em | ?? | Looking down in sadness or boredom |
| ^m^ | ? | Giggling with hand covering mouth |
| gap=1.5em | ?? | Confusion |
| ? | Facepalm | |
| gap=1.5em >^_^< |<^!^> |^/^ |（*^_^*） |§^.^§ | gap=1.5em gap=1.5em ^_^ （^—^） | ??☺️??? | Normal laugh |
| gap=1.5em / |/~ |/ |/ | / gap=1.5em / |/ |/ |/ | ? | Waving |
| gap=1.5em ＼／ ＼／ ＼／ gap=1.5em ヽノ ヽ丿 | ???? | Excited |
| gap=1.5em gap=1.5em ＼／！ | ? | Amazed |
| !! | ||
| gap=1.5em v v v （’-’*) gap=1.5em ／\/ | Hopeless | |
| gap=1.5em | ??? | |
| | ? | |
| ) | ? | Headphones, listening to music |
| gap=1.5em gap=1.5em <`～´> | <`ヘ´> | | ??? | Worried |
| ?? | Eyeglasses | |
| gap=1.5em φ φ | ✍️? | Jotting note |
| gap=1.5em gap=1.5em o )^o^ | ?????? | Happy |
| ? | Grinning | |
| gap=1.5em °o° °O° :O o_O o_0 o.O | oO | ??? | Surprised |
| gap=1.5em | Infatuation | |
| ᕕᕗ | ?? | Dancing, swinging arms back and forth, "Happy Gary" |
| gap=1.5em （ ﾟ Дﾟ) | ???? | Shocked, surprised |
| ??? | Dissatisfied | |
| gap=1.5em ヽ┌ ¯\__/¯ ¯\/¯ | ? | Mellow, shrug |
| gap=1.5em | Snubbed or deflated | |
| づ | ?? | Hugging/reaching and kissing |
| /~☆ | ???? | Blowing a kiss |
| .....φ | Studying | |
| gap=1.5em zzz | ?? | Sleeping |
| gap=1.5em uwu uwuUwU | ? | Joy or Cute |
| gap=1.5em OWO OwO | Associated with the response, "what's this?". Could also be used to denote cute, inquisitive or perplexed, sometimes associated with the furry fandom. | |
| 囧 | ?? | Distress. Jiong, a Chinese character meaning a "patterned window", now repurposed as an ideographic emoticon. |
| Icon | Emoji | Meaning |
| gap=1.5em .o○ ○o. | ? | Bubbles |
| gap=1.5em _U~~ _旦~~ | ?☕️ | Cup of tea |
| gap=1.5em ☆彡 ☆ミ ᯓ✦ | ?☄️?? | Shooting star |
| gap=1.5em >°)))彡|)|><ヨヨgap=1.5em )<< |>°))))彡 |<°)))彡 |>°))彡 gap=1.5em <+ |))><< |<*)) |> | ??????? | Fish |
| ?? | Squid, octopus | |
| ~>°)～～～ | ? | Snake |
| ～°·_·°～ | ? | Bat |
| ～ | Tadpole | |
| ●～* | ?? | Bomb |
| gap=1.5em | Despair. The "O"s represent head on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso, and "S" or "z" the legs. | |
| gap=1.5em gap=1.5em ┻━┻︵ヽﾉ︵ ┻━┻ ┬─┬ノ gap=1.5em ノ彡┻━┻ | Table flip | |
| gap=1.5em :-P :-O |
2channel emoticons
A number of Eastern emoticons were originally developed on the Japanese discussion site 2channel. Some of these are wider than usual kaomoji, or extend over multiple lines of text. Many use characters from other character sets besides Japanese and Latin.| Icon | Meaning |
| mm | Kowtow as a sign of respect, or dogeza for apology |
| Snubbed or deflated | |
| Feel perky | |
| Salute | |
| Terribly sad | |
| Peace of mind | |
| ヽﾉ | Be irritable |
| Angry | |
| Yelling, or panting | |
| （ ﾟДﾟ） | Surprised, or loudmouthed |
| ┐┌ | Don't know the answer |
| Carefree | |
| （ ´_ゝ`） | Indifferent |
| Σ | Shocked |
| Happy, upbeat | |
| "Bu-n", being carefree and above, with arms stretched out while running/soaring | |
| )) | Spook |
| Σ | Huge surprise |
| Jog someone's cheek | |
| Amazed | |
| y-~~ | Smoking |
| （ ^_^）o自自o（^_^ ） | Toast "Cheers" |
| m9 | Flash of intuition |
| Friendly | |
| Depressed, unsatisfied | |
| （´-`）.｡oO | Thinking |
| つ⑩ | Carrying money |
| Sliding on belly, "whooaaa!!!" | |
| Unforeseen | |
| "I don't need it" | |
| щ 屮 | Come on |
| （・∀・） | Mocking, "good" |
| "That's bad" | |
| Discharged drug-in-brain, goofing around, "A-HYA!" | |
| （） | Sad |
| Not convincing | |
| Simper, Snorlax | |
| Deflagged | |
| ♪┏┛♪┗ ┓ | Happy expressions, dancing to the music |
| db | Happy expression |
| Given up. Despair. The "O"s represent head on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso, and "S" or "z" the legs. | |
| STO | Given up. Despair. The "O"s represent head on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso, and "S" or "z" the legs. |
| OTZ | Given up. Despair. The "O"s represent head on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso, and "S" or "z" the legs. |
| OTL | Given up. Despair. The "O"s represent head on the ground, "T" or "r" forms the torso, and "S" or "z" the legs. |
| Extreme Distaste, meant to appear as an exaggerated grimace | |
| Shouting | |
| Pretending not to notice, asleep because of boredom | |
| Kick | |
| ┌┐ | Discombobulated |
| ε=ε=ε=┌ﾉ | Running |
| ヽ/ | Happy |
| ^ㅂ^ | Happy |
| Shocked | |
| ヽﾉ | Really angry |
| ☞ | "Do it" |
| ☜ | "Do it" |
| ☜☞ | Angel |
| Icon | Meaning |
| キタ━━━━━━!!!!! | "It's here", Kitaa!, excitement that something has appeared or happened or "I came". |
| ｷﾀﾜァ*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ηﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*!!!!! | Girlish version of "It's here". |
| ﾊｧﾊｧ | Erotic stirring, haa haa |
| Patting, nade nade | |
| <ｵｵｵｵｫｫｫｫｫｫｫｰｰｰｰｰｲ! | Calling out, "Ooooi!" |
| Evil laugh | |
| （・∀・ ）ヾコラコラ | Blaming "now now" |
| おやすみぃﾉﾞ | Kana reading "O ya su mi" meaning "Good night" or "Night" |