A cool guide to Japanese Emoticons

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Fun fact: Japanese emoticons have more focus on the eyes and western ones on the mouth which is a general thing in the cultures. Compare Manga and western comics and the former have big eyes and a small mouth and the latter has the other way around
NGL I prefer Japanese emoticons over the yellow faced emoji.
It's missing (UwU) ...still don't know what it means.
- You lucky bastard.
- closed eyes and animal mouth commonly used by furries
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
"Seriously?" and "amazed" being identical would really fuck with you if you're a bit insecure
- (o_o) (0_0) (O_O)
  
  I think zero or lowercase o is more "seriously?" and capital O is more "amazed."
  
  This would be easier if the guide maker typed these up instead of drawing them.
- That's actually honestly pretty true to Japanese culture.
  
  Honne-tatamae was one of the worst aspects of living in Japan for me, especially as an autistic person.
- Seriously （ｏ＿Ｏ）amazed （O_O）
- The mouth is different.
  
  Edit: Or not.
  
  Is it? It loos a bit different but both are _, aren't they?
I find it interesting that these emoticons are hand-drawn.
There's a lot more interpretations than just these.
- Yeah... This is me blased (-_-)
(OwO)
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ಠ_ಠ
(^_~)
- You dropped this: \
  
  actually no. but thanks I guess
- (^_-)
What makes them Japanese? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
- (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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I actually needed this
anyone got a link to all of them ? so I can copy paste
- Signal messenger has them build in with the usual emojis
What about cat? (=¹=)
This is just what we use before the days of smartphones. And it's definitely not something exclusive to Japan nor invented in Japan.
- @cordlesslamp @partybot They sure were invented there. North American style were sideways. :) #old
  
  At least in southeast Asia, teenagers has been doing that since the late 90s - early 2000s (I was one of them).
  
  AFAIK, the Japanese emoticons use a lot of Japanese characters (letters?). For example, ／(=✪㉨✪=)＼ or (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ
Japanese and cool? Nope.

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