Smiley, what can you do? ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ Emoticons from symbols. Japanese food emoticons

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Using emoticons when communicating in chats, forums, social networks, when posting comments on blogs and even in business correspondence at the present stage of Internet development is already quite commonplace. Moreover, emoticons can be displayed as simple text characters, and in graphic design, which adds choice.

Graphic emoticons (emoji, or emoji), which we will talk about in more detail below, appearing in the form of pictures, are displayed by inserting the corresponding codes that were specially added to the official Unicode table so that users can use them almost everywhere to express emotions .

Thus, on the one hand, you can find the code of the smiley you need in a special list to insert it, and on the other hand, in order not to look for the necessary encoding every time, it is quite possible to remember the sequence of simple text characters that reflect the most frequently expressed types of emotional state, and insert them into the text of the message.

Indicating emoticons using text symbols

To begin with, in order to satisfy my perfectionist nature, I would like to say a few words about the history of emoticons. After the great Tim Berners Lee laid the foundation for the development of the modern Internet, people were able to communicate virtually unlimitedly among themselves.

However, on the World Wide Web, from the very beginning, communication was carried out in writing (and even today this type of dialogue is still very popular), and it is very limited in terms of reflecting the emotions of the interlocutor.

Of course, a person who has literary talent and the gift of expressing his feelings through text will not experience problems. But the percentage of such gifted people, as you understand, is very small, which is quite logical, and the problem had to be solved on a mass scale.

Naturally, the question arose of how to smooth out this shortcoming. It is not known for certain who first proposed text signs reflecting this or that emotion.

According to some reports, it was a famous American computer scientist Scott Elliot Fahlman, who proposed using a set of symbols for humorous messages :-), in a different interpretation :) . If you tilt your head to the left, you will see what is essentially a cheerful smiley face:

And for messages containing some kind of negative information that can evoke emotions of the opposite nature, the same Falman came up with another combination of symbols:-(or:(. As a result, if we rotate it 90°, we will see a sad emoticon:

By the way, since the first emoticons primarily identified the emotional background of the interlocutors, they received the name emoticons. This name comes from the abbreviated English expression emot ion icon— an icon with an expression of emotion.

The meaning of emoticons that express emotions through symbols

So, a start has been made in this area, all that remains is to pick up the idea and choose simple text signs with which one could easily and simply reflect other expressions of mood and emotional state. Here are some emoticons from the symbols and their interpretation:

• :-) , :) ,) , =) , :c) , :o) , :] , 8) , :?) , :^) or :) - emoticon of happiness or joy;
• :-D , :D - a wide smile or uncontrollable laughter;
• :"-) , :"-D - laughter to tears;
• :-(, :(, =(—sad emoticon made from symbols;
• :-C, :C - emoticons made from text characters, indicating intense sadness;
• :-o, - boredom;
• :_(, :"(, :~(, :*(—crying emoticon;
• XD, xD - emoticons with letters that mean ridicule;
• >:-D, >:) - options for expressing gloating (evil grin);
• :-> - grin;
• ):-> or ]:-> - insidious smile;
• :-/ or:-\ - these emoticons can mean confusion, indecision;
• :-|| - anger;
• D-: - strong anger
• :-E or:E - designation of rage in text characters;
• :-| , :-I - this can be deciphered as a neutral attitude;
• :-() , :-o , =-O , = O , :-0 , :O - these sets of symbols mean surprise;
• 8-O or:- , :-() - decoding: extreme degree of amazement (shock);
• :-* - gloominess, bitterness;
• =P, =-P, :-P - irritation;
• xP - disgust;
• :-7 - sarcasm;
• :-J - irony;
• :> - smug;
• X(—inflated;
• :~- - bitter to tears.

By the way, some emoticons from signs, when inserted, can be displayed in graphic form (this will be discussed in today’s article), but not always and not everywhere.

What do other classic text emoticons mean?

Below I will give a number of simple symbolic emoticons that reflect the state, character traits of people, their attitude towards their interlocutors, emotional actions or gestures, as well as images of creatures, animals and flowers:

• ;-(— sad joke;
• ;-) - means a funny joke;
• :-@ - cry of anger;
• :-P, :-p, :-Ъ - show your tongue, which means licking your lips in anticipation of delicious food;
• :-v - talks a lot;
• :-* , :-() — kiss;
• () - hugs;
• ; , ;-) , ;) - wink designations;
• |-O - surging yawning, which means a desire to sleep;
• |-I - sleeping;
• |-O - snores;
• :-Q - smoker;
• :-? - smokes a pipe;
• / — emoticon meaning the interjection “hmmm”;
• :-(0) - screams;
• :-X - “keep your mouth shut” (means a call for silence;)
• :-! - the meaning of nausea or an analogue of the phrase “it makes you sick”;
• ~:0 - child;
• :*), %-) - drunk, intoxicated;
• =/ - crazy;
• :), :-() - a man with a mustache;
• =|:-)= — “Uncle Sam” (this emoticon means a comic image of the US state);
• -:-) - punk;
• (:-| - monk;
• *:O) - clown;
• B-) - a man in sunglasses;
• B:-) - sunglasses on the head;
• 8-) - a man with glasses;
• 8:-) - glasses on the head;
• @:-) - a man with a turban on his head;
• :-E - this set of symbols denotes a vampire;
• 8-# - zombies;
• @~)~~~~ , @)->-- , @)-v-- - rose;
• *->->-- - clove;
• <:3>
• =8) - pig;
• :o/ , :o
• :3 - cat;

If you wish, you can invent emoticons yourself by typing certain symbols (letters, numbers or symbols) on the keyboard. From the above list it is clear, for example, that using the number “3” you can depict the face of a cat, a dog (as well as, say, a rabbit) or one of the parts of a heart. And emoticons with P mean sticking out tongue. There is room for creativity.

Horizontal Japanese emoticons (kaomoji)

Above were classic emoticons made up of text symbols, which are interpreted and take on the correct shape only if you tilt your head to the left or mentally rotate such an image 90° to the right.

Japanese emoticons are more convenient in this regard; when looking at them, you do not need to tilt your head, because it is immediately clear what each of them means. Kaomoji, as you probably guessed, was first used in Japan and consisted of both standard characters found on any keyboard and the use of hieroglyphs.

Japanese term «顔文字» when translated into Latin it looks like “Kaomoji”. In fact, the phrase “kaomoji” is very close to the concept of “smile” (English smile - smile), since "kao" (顔) means "face" and "moji" (文字)- “symbol”, “letter”.

Even with a quick analysis of the meanings of these terms, it is noticeable that Europeans and residents of most countries where the Latin alphabet is common pay more attention to such an element as the mouth (smile) when expressing emotions. For the Japanese, all components of the face are important, especially the eyes. This is expressed in true (not modified) kaomoji.

Subsequently, Japanese emoticons became widespread in Southeast Asia, and today they are used throughout the world. Moreover, they can consist not only of symbols and hieroglyphs, but are often supplemented, for example, with letters and signs of the Latin or Arabic alphabet. First, let's see what do some simple horizontal symbols mean? text emoticons :

• (^_^) or (n_n) - smiling, joyful;
• (^____^) - wide smile;
• ^-^ — happy smiley;
• (<_>) , (v_v) - this is how sadness is usually denoted;
• (o_o) , (0_0) , (o_O) - these emoticons mean varying degrees of surprise;
• (V_v) or (v_V) - unpleasantly surprised;
• *-* - amazement;
• (@_@) — surprise has reached its maximum (“you can be stunned”);
• ^_^”, *^_^* or (-_-v) - embarrassment, awkwardness;
• (?_?) , ^o^ - misunderstanding;
• (-_-#) , (-_-¤) , (>__
• 8 (>_
• (>>) , (>_>) or (<_>
• -__- or =__= - indifference;
• m (._.) m - apology;
• ($_$) - this emoticon reflects greed;
• (;_;) , Q__Q - crying;
• (T_T), (TT.TT) or (ToT) - sobbing;
• (^_~) , (^_-) - these variations of emoticons mean a wink;
• ^)(^, (-)(-), (^)...(^) - kiss;
• (^3^) or (* ^) 3 (*^^*) - love;
• (-_-;) , (-_-;)~ - sick;
• (- . -) Zzz, (-_-) Zzz or (u_u) - sleeping.

Well, now a few horizontal emoticons that reflect frequently encountered emotions, composed of more complex symbols and signs, as well as their designations:

• ٩(◕‿◕)۶ , (〃＾▽＾〃) or \(★ω★)/ - happiness;
• o(❛ᴗ❛)o , (o˘◡˘o) , (っ˘ω˘ς) - smile;
• (´♡‿♡`), (˘∀˘)/(μ‿μ) ❤ or (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡ - love;
• (◡‿◡ *), (*ﾉ∀`*), (*μ_μ) - embarrassment.

Naturally, Japanese emoticons, which use not only service symbols and punctuation marks, but also complex letters of the katakana alphabet, provide more opportunities to express not only emotions through facial expressions, but also through gestures.

For example, an emoticon has become widespread on the Internet, shrugging shoulders and throwing up hands. What does it mean? Most likely an apology with a hint of awkwardness:

This emoticon appeared thanks to the famous rapper Kanye West, who unexpectedly interrupted the presenter's speech at the Video Music Awards in 2010, and then demonstrated such a gesture, admitting the incorrectness of his behavior (the emoticon that shrugs its shoulders and spreads its arms was called “Kanye shoulders” and became a real meme):

If you are interested in exploring complete collection kaomoji reflecting emotions, forms of movement, states, types of animals, etc., then visit here is this resource, where they can be easily copied and pasted into the desired location.

Graphic emoticons Emoji (emoji), their codes and meanings

So, above we examined symbolic emoticons, some of which, when inserted on social networks and other places, can acquire graphic outlines, that is, appear in the form of pictures. But this does not happen everywhere and not always. Why?

Yes, because they consist of simple text icons. To emoticons were guaranteed to acquire the appearance of images after insertion, and in any place where you place them, codes must be used, specially included in the official Unicode table so that any user can quickly express their emotional state.

Of course, any emoticon can be loaded as created in graphic editors pictures, but given the huge number of them and the number of users on the Internet, this solution does not look ideal, since it will inevitably negatively affect bandwidth global network. But the use of codes in this situation is just right.

As a result, popular engines used for forums and blogs (for example, WordPress) have in their functionality the ability to insert colored emoticons, which undoubtedly adds expressiveness to messages.

The same can be said for various chats and instant messengers designed for both PCs and mobile devices(Skype, Telegram, Viber, Whatsapp).

It is graphic pictograms that are called emoji (or emoji, which is more correct from the point of view of Japanese pronunciation). Term «画像文字» (in Latin transliteration “emoji”), which, like kaomoji, is a phrase consisting of two words translated into Russian meaning “picture” (“e”) and “letter”, “symbol” (moji).

I think the Japanese name for small pictures that appear in the text to display emotions, feelings and states is most fair, since it was in Japan that symbolic images were born that do not require mentally turning them over for correct perception.

As I noted above, any code emoji smiley in the vast majority of cases, it is necessarily interpreted into a picture in all possible places where you want to insert it, including, for example, social networks VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Moreover, in different areas, the smiley may be displayed differently when inserting the same Unicode code corresponding to a specific value:

Another important point. By default, the emoji smiley will be executed in black and white or displayed as a rectangle😀 (it all depends on the platform that is used where it is inserted). You can verify this if visit encoder and try to insert HTML codes corresponding to different emoticons into the field on the right:

Similar emojis will look exactly like this in the browser. In order for them to acquire color, you need to use a special script that is installed on large popular services. By the way, in one of latest versions WordPress (I don’t remember which one) had emoji enabled by default, but I had to disable them due to a serious increase in ., which I try to constantly monitor.

So for small businesses with limited resources, emojis are not always a boon. After disabling, when you try to insert emoji into the text of an article or comment, the emoticons will be present in black and white or in the shape of a rectangle.

But in popular social networks, the use of the appropriate HTML code by any user initiates the appearance of a full-fledged emoticon. By the way, in the same Contact there is a whole collection of emoji, sorted into categories. Copy this or that emoji you can from the Unicode table, located where the icons are distributed among sections:

Select the required image from the “Native” column and copy it to using context menu or Ctrl+C. Then open a page of some kind in a new tab social network, forum, chat, even your own Email and paste this code into the message you want to send using the same menu or Ctrl+V.

Now watch the video, which presents 10 emojis whose real meaning you may not even know.

Emoticons have become such a part of our lives that without them the alphabet looks incomplete, and messages seem dry and distant. But even such a frivolous and childishly simple task as arranging emojis has its own subtleties.

What do different emoticons mean?

With object emoticons, everything is simple: they mean what they represent. A ball is a ball, an alarm clock is an alarm clock, and there’s nothing to think about. But with face emoticons the task becomes more complicated. We are not always able to correctly guess emotions from the faces of living people, let alone the faces of koloboks. There are emoticons whose meaning is obvious:

Fun, laughter, joy, rejoicing.

Sadness, melancholy, melancholy, dissatisfaction.

Playful mood, teasing.

Surprise, amazement, shock, fear.

Anger, resentment, rage.

And a few more similar ones - that's all possible options families and romantic unions.

But among the emoticons there are also those whose meaning can be interpreted ambiguously, or even be completely confusing:

This emoticon depicts a person crying in three - well, two - streams, but in the version for Apple devices Because of his raised eyebrows and his mouth, which is not distorted from sobs, he is often perceived as laughing until he bursts into tears. Be careful with them: you want to indicate grief to them, but they will misunderstand you.

This emoticon is intended to represent silence. Instead, he just scares you to death.

If everything is more or less clear with the evil devil (“angry as hell”), then the cheerful devil is somewhat puzzling. Most likely, he is not only furious, but also looking forward to dancing on your opponent’s grave. But you, perhaps, just wanted to show originality and an unusual smiley.

Despite the fact that the three wise monkeys did not see, hear or speak anything precisely because of their wisdom, these muzzles cover their eyes, mouth and ears in shame, confusion and shock.

A set of cat emoticons for those who consider ordinary koloboks to be insufficiently expressive and want to add sweetness to their emotions.

Instead of “hello” and “bye,” you can wave your hand.

Raised hands, a gesture of joyful greeting or jubilation.

The applause is both sincere and sarcastic.

If in this picture you see hands folded in a prayer gesture, then for you the emoji may mean “thank you” or “I beg you.” Well, if you see a high-five happening here, it means you are a very cheerful person.

A raised index finger can emphasize the importance of a message or express a request to interrupt the interlocutor with a question, or it can simply indicate a previous message in the chat.

Fingers crossed for luck.

For some it’s “stop”, but for others it’s “high five!”

No, it's not a truffle. Not even a truffle at all.

Ogre and Japanese goblin. Looks like someone is missing the usual devils.

Liar. His nose grows like Pinocchio's every time he lies.

These are eyes wide with amazement, and the darting eyes of a scoundrel, and even a lustful look. If someone sends you such an emoticon in a comment to a photo, you can be sure that the photo is good.

And it's just an eye, and it's watching you.

New moon and full moon. It seems like nothing special, but these emoticons have their fans who value them for their creepy facial expressions.

A very common girl in purple. Her gestures mean OK (arms above head), “no” (arms crossed), “hello” or “I know the answer” (arm raised up). This character has another pose that confuses many - . According to the official version, it symbolizes a help desk employee. Apparently, she is showing with her hand how to get to the city library.

Do you also see two tense faces here, presumably in an unfriendly mood? But they didn’t guess: according to Apple’s hints, this is an embarrassed face and a stubborn face. Who would have thought!

By the way, you can see hints for emoticons in the message window on if you open an emoji and hover over the emoticon you are interested in. Like this:

Another way to find out the meaning of an emoticon is to turn to emojipedia.org for help. On it you will find not only detailed interpretations of emoticons, but you can also see how the same emoticon looks on different platforms. Many unexpected discoveries await you.

Where are emoticons appropriate?

1. In informal friendly correspondence

Funny yellow faces are appropriate in a personal chat, where you share not so much information as your mood. With the help of emoticons, you will laugh at a joke, sympathize, and make faces at each other. This is where emotions belong.

2. When emotions splash over the edge and there are not enough words

Sometimes, when something very important happens in our lives, we are so overwhelmed with feelings that we are about to burst. Then we write an emotional post on Facebook or post a dazzling photo on Instagram and decorate it with a generous scattering of emoticons. Some people, of course, won’t like this, but what now, stifling all the bright sensations in yourself? The main thing is not to overuse such public displays of violent emotions: this will alienate subscribers and call into question your adequacy.

3. By agreement, to highlight messages in work correspondence

It's very simple and convenient way make important messages that require urgent response visible. For example, great for these purposes. But you need to agree in advance which cases are considered urgent in your company and what emoticon you will use for this.

It’s important not to overdo it: if you have one emoticon for messages about emergency situations, a second for urgent issues, a third for important news, then soon all your work correspondence will turn into a New Year’s garland that no one looks at.

When is it better to do without emoticons?

1. In business correspondence

Work is no place for emotions. Here you are required to be calm, collected and professional. Even if you want to emphasize your friendliness or express concern about a situation, use , not emoticons, for these purposes.

2. When communicating with foreigners

This is especially true for gesture emoticons. For example, the person you wanted to express approval of will put an end to your good relationship with a person from Greece or Thailand. Of course, with this gesture you sent him to hell.

Therefore, if you are not confident in your deep knowledge of the peculiarities of the national culture of your interlocutor, do not take risks.

3. Oddly enough, when you discuss feelings and emotions

Feelings are a serious matter. If you are not just chatting, but revealing your soul or sharing something important, words will convey your feelings and experiences much more accurately than emoticons. “You are dearer to me than anyone in the world” means much more than ten hearts in a row. In the end, you only have one heart, so give it away.

Remember that emojis are a seasoning, not the main ingredient. You only need a small amount to add punch to your message.

Emoji language

Judging by the fact that today almost no personal correspondence is complete without emoticons, we can safely say that emoji have become an independent section of the language. Sometimes they even pretend to replace language: you can write an entire message using only emoticons. In the popular American TV show Ellen DeGeneres there is even a special section in which guests are invited to read a phrase where some of the words are replaced with emoji:

And here the name of the film is encrypted, which we invite you to guess.

I Dunno LOL(Shruggie, Pozhimalkin) is a popular emoticon and English slang, shortened from the phrase I Don’t Know LOL (“I don’t know “). The canonical form is written like this: ¯\(°_o)/¯. But in RuNet this emoticon is known in this form: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Origin

The first documented online use of the phrase I Dunno LOL was in 2001. This phrase, like many other abbreviations in English language, is an errative (that is, a deliberate reduction or distortion). Such abbreviations were popular in the early 2000s during the heyday of SMS and ICQ correspondence.

The emoticon associated with this slang phrase appeared a little later. According to Knowyourmeme, it was inspired by an image from a Spider-Man comic book. It was with Spiderman, who spreads his hands and asks: “How do I shot web?” This was a popular Fourchan meme in the early 2000s.

In 2003, someone thought of transferring a common gesture to the emoticon format, and thus the ¯\(°_o)/¯ emoticon appeared. It was not particularly popular until about 2005, but in subsequent years it began to gain popularity. He has dozens of copies in the form of macro pictures or faces, in which someone makes the same gesture with their hands.

In the case of the emoticon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the situation is a little different. It came about thanks to New York literary agency assistant Caroline Eisenmann, who decided to spruce up her dating profile and add a random Asian squiggle. It turned out that these are characters from the Japanese katakana alphabet. In the West it is known as a shruggie or "kaomoji", a Japanese facial marking.

In RuNet

In 2014, the I Dunno LOL emoticon began to be used in social networks by the online publication Lenta.ru and essentially made it a new RuNet meme. And the reason for this was the sad news about the departure of Lenta employees after a change in management. In March 2014, on the publication’s website, in the “Who makes Lenta.ru” section, those same emoticons appeared instead of names.

Then users of Twitter and VKontakte began to actively use them. And on April 1, when the former general director of VKontakte Pavel Durov announced his resignation for the first time, an emoticon appeared instead of his name at the bottom of the social network page.

It got to the point that the emoticon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, which essentially repeats the I Dunno LOL meme, has again become popular in the West. In Russia, he was given the affectionate nickname “Pozhimalkin.” Now this is a corporate smiley " Lentacha" and "Jellyfish".

Meaning

I Dunno LOL is a universal answer to any question unworthy of attention. Or when you don’t know the answer, but at the same time you are perplexed by the question or situation. Often emoticons in this meaning accompany strange and absurd news from the world and politics.

If we personify the I Dunno LOL emoticon (remember “Pozhimalkin”), then this is a character who throws up his hands in bewilderment, asking “I don’t know what the hell is going on here.”

There is another RuNet meme that is similar in meaning: “A shield to do” (an errative from the phrase “What to do”). In this case, the emoticon can be used in the form not so much of ignorance as of hopelessness and expressed by the rhetorical question above. Example: “Something can be done.”



The emoticon ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯ became widespread on the RuNet not so long ago. And he was born thanks to Caroline Eisenmann, an assistant at a New York literary agency.

While editing her profile on the OkCupid dating site, Caroline decided that the profile would be more memorable if she added something interesting to the name. It was supposed to be something "frivolous" but "slightly melancholy." This is how this emoticon was created, depicting an ironically smiling man spreading his arms.

OkCupid refused to approve a profile with this emoticon, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ has already begun its victorious march across the Internet

Such complex symbols are especially characteristic of the Japanese language: there, not only punctuation marks, but service symbols, as well as letters of the katakana alphabet are used to create emoticons.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ began to actively gain popularity after rapper Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's speech at the 2010 Video Music Awards. After his inappropriate intervention, he shrugged his shoulders and spread his arms, agreeing with the wrongness of his action. A post immediately appeared on Twitter: “Kanye’s shoulders -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯,” conveying the rapper’s gesture. The post began to gain retweets, and the emoticon began to appear in a variety of contexts; in particular, such a gesture became a feature of one of the famous teams of Starcraft players.

Internet users began to find this characteristic gesture everywhere. One of the Reddit bloggers noticed it on Han Solo from the original Star Wars trilogy. Another one is from Mysterio, the villain from Spider-Man.

However, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ remains closely associated with literate culture. This is explained by the fact that it is impossible to pronounce it, only print it or draw it with your hands. Users surveyed by The Awl (including writers, editors and journalists) say that this emoji helps them avoid wasting extra time in chats explaining how they feel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ helps them express apologies (with some tinge of awkwardness), doubts and melancholy regret.

And this, of course, is Zen Buddhist calm and acceptance of the world around us as it is.

¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯

Although there is also this version:

On March 12, Lenta.ru reported that the owner of the merged company Rambler&Co, Alexander Mamut, decided to resign editor-in-chief Galina Timchenko, who had worked in this position since 2004.

On March 13, 39 employees of the publication wrote letters of resignation, and already on March 17, in the “Who makes Lenta.ru” section, emoticons began to appear instead of the names of some of them.

The “¯\_(ツ)_/¯” emoticon with a smiling man shrugging his shoulders carefree almost immediately began to be used by other media to announce events related to Lenta.ru.

They also noted the disappearance of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

On April 1, when former VKontakte CEO Pavel Durov announced his resignation for the first time, an emoticon appeared instead of his name at the bottom of the social network page.

Two months later, Western publications reported that the same smiley had gained incredible popularity on the English-speaking Internet. Netizens, as before in Russia, began to publish numerous jokes using it. However, none of the publications attributes a “Russian trace” to the trend.

And the media began to publish instructions on how this character set can be typed more easily without copying it to Mac and iPhone.

"¯\_(ツ)_/¯" is known in the West as "shruggie" or "kaomoji", a Japanese facial marking. It differs from emojii and emoticons by using characters from the katakana alphabet.

This emoji first went viral on the English-speaking Internet in 2009, when rapper Kanye West ruined the moment of presenting an award to singer Taylor Swift by shouting into the crowd that The best video shot by Beyoncé. Before leaving the stage, he made a gesture that looked similar to "¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

Two years later, the emoji became popular again thanks to a world-class Starcraft II player named SeleCT. With its help, he completed all victorious matches, and the set of symbols itself acquired the meaning “sup son” (“well, son?”).

By the way, you are probably asking how to dial it? So, ツ is a character in the Japanese katakana alphabet, and not an emoticon; to make it, you need to install a Japanese font!

Control panel - clock, language and region - change keyboard layout - change keyboard - add - Japanese (Japan) - OK, Done)))

Kaomoji (顔文字) is a Japanese emoji style and is essentially synonymous with Japanese emoticons. This concept is formed by a combination of words: kao (顔 - face) + moji (文字 - symbol, written sign).

The Japanese are a very emotional and creative nation. Therefore, in Japan, emoticons are more common than anywhere else in the world.

Many Japanese are good at drawing, because Japanese is the language of drawings. The example of anime and manga shows how accurately the authors manage to convey the various emotions of the characters with just a few simple lines. Probably, kaomoji to a certain extent owes its existence to these types of Japanese art.

According to the Japanese, eyes are the mirror of a person's soul. Therefore, if in Western emoticons the greatest attention is paid to the mouth, in Japanese emoticons it is the eyes. In addition, unlike Western emoticons, kaomoji does not need to be mentally rotated 90 degrees.

Japanese emoticons are extremely diverse. On the Internet you can see the figure 10,000, but in reality there are many more. This diversity is explained by at least two factors:

• unlike the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, which are most often written in single-byte encodings, Japanese writing requires at least double-byte encodings that have a wider character coverage;
• Kaomoji can denote not only individual emotions, but also complex actions, and their combinations even create whole stories.

Kaomoji are divided into categories depending on the emotional component, the type of action or object indicated. Also in these emoticons you can often find hieroglyphs that carry additional semantic connotations.