Japanese Emoticon List

Posted in Japan, Language by Elliott Back on February 27th, 2007.

Here’s a pretty cool list of the top 30 or so Japanese Emoticons. Asian emoticons generally seem to come in the following form:

emoticon ::= ear (eye mouth/nose eye) ear

The trick is that you have to visualize a face laid out horizontally instead of vertically, after which the Asian-style emoticon directly resembles a human face:

(^_^)
(>_< )>
(^_^;)
(ToT)
m(_ _)m
(^^;)
（￣ー￣）
(≧∇≦)
（￣□￣；）
(#^.^#)

I like the last one best (#^.^#) Some other lists of emoticons can be found below:

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5 Responses to “Japanese Emoticon List”

raindrop says:

2/28/2007 at 3:23 am

orz
but doesn’t (^^;) supposed to be that (^^); comma being thumb up?

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Wendy says:

3/9/2007 at 12:02 pm

\(^o^)/

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randomguy says:

4/21/2008 at 2:19 am

i think the comma is supposed to be a “sweat drop” and not a “thumbs up”

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ragnarok says:

4/15/2009 at 6:30 pm

(-(-_(-_-(O_o)-_-)_-)-)-woken on subway

(-_-;)- ^_^’

[ o ]-japan

..V,(^_^)

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Megglezz says:

7/1/2009 at 12:01 am

*dance* ヘ(^_^ヘ)(ノ^_^)ノ

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