Japanese Emoticons

Posted on 14. Jan, 2007 @ 2:15 pm by in Culture Views: 3,077

Here are some cute “Japanese” Emoticons. Also known as “kaomoji” 「顔文字」in Japanese.

I’m sure they use similar, if not the same emoticons all over Asia. I often get these emoticons sent to me via phone email. Phones even have shortcut keys you can use to pull them up in a second.

(^-^)/

(^O^)/

(‘-^*)/

(・ω・)/

o(^-^)o

o(^▽^)o

(^O^)

\(^_^)/

(^-^)ノ~~

(*^-^)b ♪

(*^ ・^)ノ⌒☆

(b^-゜)

(=^▽^=)

(*^ー^)ノ

ヾ( ´ー`)

♪(*’-^)-☆

(^_-)☆

(*^_^*)

(^_^;)

(#^-^#)

(^ε^)

(^〜^)

(^o^;)

v(^-^)v
(*^o^*)

(≧▽≦)

(≧▽≦)ゞ

ヾ(≧∇≦*)ゝ

(^ε^)♪

(´∀`)

f^_^;

The scary thing is, there are tons more of these… Tons.

After you’ve memorized all the Kanji, you can work on these!
- Harvey

  • http://pixelscribbles.com/journal Heather Meadows

    Wow. I’ve never seen most of those before. I did see a few in Densha Otoko, and my AMRN friends and I have used stuff like ^_^, ^_^;, -_-, ^_~, etc. for years, but those are really elaborate!

  • http://aichan666.deviantart.com Allison

    kawaii! a bunch of japanese prep school girls came to our class and taught us some of these once. i’d use these more, but i really hate texting. asia doesn’t seem to be short on large lists of things that are extremely similliar and must be memorized. kanji, emoticons, pokémon, chinese dynasties etc. etc.

  • http://yesmaru.blogspot.com yesmaru

    It is interesting if I can memorise all these and put into good use. Kind of know the first few but don’t know the rest of their meaning.

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