Japanese Emoticons

Did you familiar with this: :) or this: :( or maybe even this one: :P? These are named smiley or emoticon. Emoticons are some way to express your feeling through a text that shaped like an actual face emotions. Look into this example :), if you bend your neck to the left that text will shaped like a smile face with the colon is the eyes and the closes bracket is the lips.

That way you'll be able to read the western style emoticons. There's many variation of western style emoticons out there but not as much as the Japanese style. Yes, there are some kind of emoticons that are different and has much more variations then the western style. Its called the Japanese emoticons or also known as Kaomoji, since its come from Japan.

This kind of emoticons have a different from how its read. The western style read horizontally from left to right and the Japanese style read vertically from up to down. So basically Japanese emoticons is easier to read than the western style. How exactly we write in Japanese emoticons? Look at this example: (^_^) its the smile version of western style emoticons.

Why does Japanese emoticons has more variations than western one? Maybe its because American alphabet letters in computer is 1 byte and Japanese one is 2 byte, so Japanese has letters can have more characters to add to emoticons. OK, enough with the explanation already, now I'll give you the list of Japanese emoticons that you can use. Enjoy it!

Emoticon	Meaning
(n_n)	Smile
(._.)	Little sad face
(-__-)	Sleepy
(;_;)	Crying in tears
(^_^)	Happy
(¬_¬)	Angry
(^o^)	Satisfied
*(^O^)*	Lot of happiness
(>_<)	Wrong
(*^*)	Surprised
(O_O)	Amazed
(@_@)	Headache
(X_X)	Dead
(¬_¬")	Furious
(=_=)	Bored
(*-*)	In love eyes
(!__!)	Sad
(=_=)	Bored
(o_O)	Crazy eyes
(*O*)	Incredible
(p_q)	Confused
(o_o)	Astonished
(;O;)	Big cry
(_O_)	Too bad
(.O.')	Perplexed
(-_-;)	To be sorry...
('_')	Big surprise
(?_?)	Unpleasant surprise
('O')	Singing
m(_ _)m	Give up
(/_\)	Piteous
(=^_^=)	Little kittie
(u_u)	Sad eyes
(ú_ú)	Not in a mood
(>x	Cursing
(ñ_ñ)	Evil smile
(Y_Y)	Big sadness
($_$)	See only money
(ò_ó)	Mad
(♥_♥)	In love
(>O<)	Ouch
(-_o)	Winking
8(>_<)8	Jealous
(ô_ô)	Stunning look
(z_z)	Sleepy
(9_9)	Insomnia
(6.6)	Feint
(~o~)	Mad and crazy
(^_^)/~~	Bye
(ToT)/~~~	Say goodbye
(;_;)/~~~	Goodbye in tears
(^-^)V	Happy cause of victory
p(^^)q	Wish you good luck
(#_#)	Beaten up
\(^o\) (/o^)/	Dancing on the floor
(n///n)	Shy person
(o|o)	Little surprise
(U_U)	Sorry
(.-.)	In shock
^(*-*)^	Hands up
(^-^)b	Congratulations
\(*O*)/	Great
(^^)//	Cheering
((((((^_^;)	Running
(^o^)y	Peace for all
(>.<)	Angry mood
($v$)	Greedy
(-.-)zzzzz	Asleep
(~_^)	Weird wink
( L_____L ) ~zzz	Sleeping
(ò_ô)	Cannot believe
(¬_¬)	You wish...