The term emoticon or emoticon, also called emoticon or face iconcomes from English emoticon (smiley). Derived from the words emotionwhat does it mean emotionand iconwhat does it mean icon, symbol or graphic representation.
An emoticon is a drawing of a human face made with dots, dashes and other language symbols to represent different moods and express emotions with your facial expressions.
There are different ways to present emoticons. For example, the colon: ò the equals symbol = can symbolize the eyes, if a hyphen is added – it symbolizes the nose. You can also place the emoticon in a different position, for example, you can use (-: instead of 🙂
Most used emoticons and their meanings:
:/ ironic
:> mischievous smile
:< sadness, frustration
🙂 smile, happy
🙂 smile, happy
=) smile, happy
:’) laughter with tears, tear of happiness
:’-) laughter with tears, tear of happiness
:-/ ironic
🙁 sad
🙁 sad
;( crying, sad
😀 laughter
😀 laughter
=D laughter
<:-) partying
<:-D partying
xd laugh out loud
XD laugh out loud
😉 wink, complicity
😉 wink, complicity
:p joke (with tongue out)
:-p joke (with tongue out)
😐 surprised, astonished
😐 surprised, astonished
:either surprise (with open mouth)
:-either surprise (with open mouth)
:s confused
:-s confused
😡 stay mute, without words
:-X stay mute, without words
:'( cry, tear of sadness
:’-( cry, tear of sadness>
B) With glasses
B-) With glasses
8) With glasses
😎 With glasses
¬¬ irritated (looking askance)
@:-b woman with a bun
0:-) innocent, holy, innocent
+-:-) Pope
~<:º) clown
=:-/ punk
>_< pain
-_- think
>.< understanding nothing
(>-<) angry
(0_0) surprised, astonished
@_@ surprised, astonished
(6_6) doubt
(;_;) cry
(*.*) be stunned
(=_=) bored
(^.^)/ greeting or farewell (with the hand)
d-_-b listening to music, with headphones
\(^o^)/ saying hooray!
(z_z) sleepy
(@either@) groggy
($_$) obsessed with money
(p^_^)p fight
q(^_^q) fight
c(O_o)o dizzy
(::()::) get well soon (band-aids)
X_X I can not believe it
*_* amazed
*either* amazed
*^_^* blushing, embarrassed
(`} 2 {´) face to face
>-((((´> fish
@(^O^)@ koala
(=^.^=) cat
^^(^.,.^)^^ bat
(ÒvÓ) owl
^•”•^ fox
\(.:….:.)/ monster
(0,,,0) skull
|•3•| tamagotchi
~OO~ glasses
The first appearance of an emoticon was in a written message from Abraham Lincoln in 1862. In his speech, Abraham Lincoln, after a phrase that ended with “applause and laughter” placed a smiling face with a wink ;).
Then, the American magazine Puck in 1881 published a list with four emoticons with different moods (happy, sad or melancholic, indifferent and amazed).
Scott Fahlman, a research professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, proposed the famous smiley face in 1982. smiley 🙂 to distinguish in a message on electronic media between what is written jokingly and what is written seriously.
From there, emoticons began to be frequently used in email messages, SMS, chats and forums, and are currently usually automatically replaced by the corresponding images.
Emoticons help express emotions and improve remote text communication between people. There are many variants and new emoticons and new ways of using them are constantly emerging.
The japanese emoticonsalso called kaomoji or verticonos, had their origin, as their name indicates, in Japan, in East Asia. These emoticons can be understood without having to turn your head, that is, they are vertical and are simpler than Western emoticons.
What changes in almost all of these emoticons are the eyes and not the mouth, unlike Western emoticons. There are also the chinese emoticonswhich are written with numbers.
Verticons are generally only represented with the eyes and mouth, and often with the edge of the face with parentheses, for example, (‘-‘), (‘o’), (‘~’), (º-º). With these symbols you can also represent animals and even well-known characters.
The kaoania word that comes from Japanese words, kaowhich means face and ani, which means animation. They are animations or animated designs of the kaomoji performing different actions, such as laughing, dancing, playing, etc.
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