Kaomoji

Kaomoji emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using strings of text characters, such as:

  • (^ω^) → happy, excited, smile
  • ( ͡o╭╮ ͡o)→ unhappy, sad, frown

Kaomoji appeared in parallel with the emergence of emoticons (smileys) in the United States in the same decade. Unlike Kaomoji, emoticons generally use characters to imitate facial expressions sideways, such as:

  •  :) or :-) → happy
  •  :( or :-( → unhappy

Kaomoji (plural kaomoji as in Japan, occasionally, kaomojis) predate and probably inspired the emergence of emoji in Japan.

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