My corner D.I.Y+MUSIC+LANGUAGE=MY LIFE: Japanese emoticons cawaii~（⌒▽⌒）

Kaomoji (^ 0 ^ )/

Do you know what is Kaomoji?
If you don't know, now i gonna tell you.
Many Japanese people love to use emoticons, kaomoji, on their cell phones or computers!

Emoticon and smileys is big in the Internet world especially Japan.The uniquely Japanese face icons called Kaomoji (顔文字 or facemark), which means texts that formed a facial expression. Kaomoji can be used and seen especially on chat room, text messaging, e-mail etc.The influence on the construction of many of these kaomoji comes from how faces are drawn in popular Japanese cartoons, or anime.

Many Japanese people love to use emoticons and kaomoji because emoticons are so popular.
Sometimes I am very impressed on the cuteness and wide range of Japanese emoticons.

Most of the People understand the kaomoji but the people outside of Japan might be confused with the strange faces.Just like me, some of the emoticon really make me confused.

Here are the examples.

Emoticon

1 （＾_＾） or （＾_＾）Laughing

2 (>_<)> Troubled

3 (^_^;) Troubled

4 (ToT) Crying

5 m(_ _)m Apologising

6 (^^ゞ or (^^;) Shy

7 （￣ー￣） Grinning

8 (≧∇≦)/ Joyful

9 （￣□￣；） Surprised

10 (#^.^#) Shy

11 （*´▽｀*） Infatuation

12 (ーー;) Worried

13 (*^▽^*) Joyful

14 ＿
￣○, orz, OTL Depressed

15 (＾▽＾) Laughing

16 キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!, (゜∀゜), 1 I think it is “I’m here!!!”, but I just don’t really know!

17 (´･ω･`) Snubbed

18 （　ﾟ Дﾟ） Shocked

19 （・∀・） Laughing

20 (Ｔ▽Ｔ) Crying

21 (*￣m￣)Dissatisfied

22 （　´∀｀） Laughing

23 （⌒▽⌒） Laughing

24 （＾ｖ＾） Laughing

25 ヽ（´ー｀） Mellow

26 （’-’*) Laughing

27 (’A`) Snubbed

28 （゜◇゜） Surprised

29 (*°∀°) Infatuation

30 ∩( ・ω・)∩, ( ・ω・) Joyful

Since hiragana, katakana and kanji can be used to create faces, the variations of kaomoji are numberless.

Lot more interesting than Western emoticons no? My answer is YES !! So Kawaii!! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

Below the picture show the Kawaii Kaomojikun figures featuring Japanese emoticons.

Kaomojikun so cute ~ (*^▽^*)