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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 ...
This style arose on ASCII NET, an early Japanese online service, in the 1980s. They often include Japanese typography in addition to ASCII characters, and in contrast to Western-style emoticons, tend to emphasize the eyes, rather than the mouth. Wakabayashi Yasushi is credited with inventing the original kaomoji (^_^) in 1986.
A smiley-face emoticon Examples of kaomoji smileys. An emoticon (/ ə ˈ m oʊ t ə k ɒ n /, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely / ɪ ˈ m ɒ t ɪ k ɒ n /, ih-MOTT-ih-kon), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
Template:Emote [edit] 😀 This template is meant to allow people to conveniently use the Unicode emoticons. It is used by using { {emote|xxx}}, where "xxx" includes the unicode number or text shortcut. The names from the mouseover text above work if used directly, and usually if condensed to a key word ("grinning" or "unamused" for example ...
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents ). Unicode also contains many precomposed characters, so that in many cases it is possible to use both combining ...
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website [1] which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters [2] in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia [3] or emoji dictionary, [4] Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes [5] and usage trends.
Shift_JIS art. Shift_JIS art is artwork created from characters in the Shift JIS character set, a superset of the ASCII encoding standard intended for Japanese usage. Shift_JIS art has become popular on web-based bulletin boards, notably 2channel, and has even made its way into mainstream media and commercial advertising in Japan .
Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes. The Heart Eyes (😍) emoji is to express happiness towards something. The Unicode Consortium listed it as the third most used emoji in 2019, behind the Red Heart and Face with Tears of Joy emoji. [7] It frequently appears in the top 10 lists for the most common emoji. [8]