Emograms or emoticons (smile - smile) are pictures and outlines composed of letters, punctuation marks and numbers, meaning some kind of emotions. They thoroughly entered the life of modern Web users, and messages without them already seem boring. However, even in such an elementary process there are subtleties. Sometimes it’s hard to understand what emoticons mean. That is why it is worth reading this article.
Smiles on the Internet
The birthday of the emoticon is September 19 - this holiday is called Laughter Day. They are used everywhere in communication on the Web: in chats, messages, applications, etc. A cartoon face expressing various feelings, for example, pleasure, anger, rage, delight and others, makes it possible to very easily understand a person’s mood, reduce the message by several times , because of which the conversation becomes more interesting and productive.
The first funny faces appeared completely not on the Internet, but in December 1963 in the USA. This year, the designer Harvey Ross Ball on the occasion of the merger of the two insurance companies portrayed the first joyful face, which was placed on the badges of workers. Subsequently, this drawing became extremely successful. The company made a special order for another 10 thousand. Over the years, this badge has become commercially effective, and Harvey Ball came to fame in the 70s, when a couple of Spaniards developed the slogan “Happy Day!” A sunny face with the wish of a prosperous day appeared on everyday objects, clothes, etc.
What does a smile on the Internet mean? In the English style, there is a separate designation for emoticons - emoticons. It is complex, as it consists of 2 phrases: emotions and icon. 1st means the feelings of the face, and 2nd means the image of the icon itself. At present, it is difficult to imagine communicating on the Internet without the data of cute and very funny faces. Sometimes one such kolobok is enough instead of a thousand texts to convey your state of mind or position. For twenty-five years of its life, the emoticon has become a constant attribute of electronic communication. Therefore, we can safely say that a modern conversation without them would be extremely difficult.
The main emoticons and their meaning
The most widely used and understandable:
- :-) or :) or) - means the smile of the interlocutor.
- (-: - also means a smile, only differs from the first in that it is left-handed.
- , -) - a winking face.
- : <or: C - sadness, sadness, longing.
- : -> - stinginess.
- : - * or: * - kiss.
- : -x - smile your mouth, which means (on the lock) silence, silence, "do not tell anyone", "I will not tell anyone."
The web contains a wide variety of emograms: not only expressing feelings, but also imitating different heroes, signs, flags, letters, Christmas greetings, zodiac signs, etc. There are special websites on which it is possible to download entire sets, and in addition invent and portray your own variations.
How to use emoticons
Funny yellow faces are appropriate in chat and friendly correspondence, where they share their mood. With the help of such icons, it becomes as clear as possible where the interlocutor laughs, gets upset, or how he feels now, what he is doing. In such a conversation, emoticons are appropriate, and sometimes even irreplaceable. It will be appropriate to use them under video and photo, when feelings splash over the edge and there are not enough words. For example, what does a smiley heart with a beautiful bow mean? It is clear to everyone that he is often sent as a sign of congratulation, for example, on a wedding or on an anniversary.
At the same time, the use of emoticons is not recommended in official correspondence, however, by agreement, this is a very easy and successful method to make significant information visible, especially when an urgent reaction of the interlocutor to the message is required.
Attention! Use faces and signs with caution when communicating with residents of other countries, especially if there is no deep knowledge of the distinctive features of the state culture of your interlocutor. For example, what does a smile with a road sign mean? This will be a real discovery. This is a European barber shop sign.
It is also important to note that emoticons are designed to add expressiveness to the notification, they need very little. Incredibly often, numerous users use too many smiley icons in their own text messages, posts, or in individual communication with friends. This is somewhat unnerving and certainly does not have a favorable effect on the number of likes that publications receive. For this reason, you do not always need to contact with the help of only emoticons.
What emoticons are "VKontakte"
The VKontakte social network has millions of users who are in contact with each other through correspondence. The transmission of feelings on the Web is a delicate matter, but it is difficult to feel the mood of the interlocutor, and emoticons are a real salvation. These cheerful icons enliven the conversation, making it colorful and fun.
"VKontakte" there are hidden emoticons. To enter this view, you must insert the codes. One of the most popular emoticons are hearts. There are also interesting interpretations of this image: the code & # 10084, for example. Smiley heart, which means love, sympathy, romance or card suit.
If the user enters the ciphers of a certain character, then funny faces will become available in the application. These hidden icons can be included in comments and statuses in addition to the usual kit, which was taken into account when sending notifications. It is enough to enter the codes in the line where the status is located. You only need to take into account that & is set first, and ";" at the end, otherwise an ordinary combination of numbers will appear on the screen. After this operation, you need to refresh the page and a fresh status with the desired emoticon will appear on the monitor.
What does the smiley heart mean:
- With a dot below - love, a heavy heart. Such a symbol can be used both in romance correspondence and under a post on a love theme. It is often used in the text as an exclamation point. It looks different on resources. Code for VK: & # 10083; & # 65039.
- With eyes - flirting, sympathy.
What does the “eyes” smiley mean:
- Enlarged and eyebrows raised - surprise. Animated variations can move, they can be regarded as an expression of shame or suspicion. Code: & # 128563.
- One is open, the second is closed - wink. Code: & # 128521.
What do emoticons mean in Odnoklassniki?
In this social network, the topic of drawings is diverse. Paid and free varieties are available. With free, everything is elementary - emoticons are simply inserted during correspondence with a friend, during participation in the forum and when communicating in a group.
Paid emoticons are gifs in the form of animation. The paid sign will hang from the interlocutor on the page the interval that is indicated. The most popular of them:
- Shedding - the user’s page will be in virtual petals, snowflakes, sweets, rain, flowers, balls.
- “Mice”, “Cats”, “Hippos”, “Birds”. They are amazing animals that perfectly represent such feelings as laughter, fatigue, resentment, congestion, question, curiosity.
- “Cheerful animals” - monkeys, squirrels, seals, bears, crocodiles with different feelings: amazement, greeting, wish.
- “Kisses”, “Cupid”, drawings of sponges, hearts - all this is designed to express love and fun.
- Erysipelas in the genre “All OK!”
- “Russian fairy tales” is the theme of fairy tales: the image of Alyonushka, the Little Mermaid, Baba Yaga and other heroes.
- "Man" - emphasize the properties of a real man in a comic, but apt form.
- Welcome phrases in elegant fonts.
- Congratulatory - on different topics.
- “Hands” - you can convey feelings, greetings, wishes for success, feelings of danger, victory, unity with this smiley-gif.
On the official website you can always see a clear video and photos with decryptions, which means emoticons.
With the help of such images, you can clearly show the interlocutor his own feelings, so that he will instantly understand the sent feelings or intentions.
What do emoticons mean in Vatsap?
In addition to communicating when writing notifications (as in other various messengers), you can use tiny moving illustrations, whether it be a smile or laughter through tears. Their number is so huge and growing all the time, that the role of many (including the most common) is not always captured even by the most advanced users. Therefore, for convenience, they are divided into groups: nature, flags, society, family circle, specialties, objects, food, etc. In addition, you can put an additional function that makes it possible to set an automatic pronunciation that allows you to notify the name and purpose of either another smile.
It is worth noting that any of these smiles (as well as phrases from each language of the planet) may imply different definitions of different people. In addition, the role of a tiny drawing depends on the context, that is, on a specific topic that is considered by the interlocutors. For example, not everyone understands what a black smiley “heart” means, which personifies negativity, anger, bad mood and says that the opponent is on the Web, but he generally does not want to communicate.
There are some emoticons from those whose role can be interpreted indefinitely, or even completely put in a hopeless situation:
- Smile moon. What does an image with a crooked smile and eyes set aside mean? In fact, this is a wish for good night, pleasant dreams, but sometimes the interlocutor may accept this emoticon as a hint of something vulgar or contempt.
- What does black smile moon mean? Young moon, eclipse, night, mystery, dark side of the earth. Often such a picture is used, notifying that it is night and it is time to go to sleep. And for creepy facial expressions, horror fans appreciate them.
- The monkey closes her eyes with two hands - "I do not want to see anything cruel and bad," can also be regarded as embarrassment and embarrassment.
- What do emoticons in Vatsap with a curved face mean? Often they are used to express contempt, although such a smile is conceived to display a state of irritation and nervousness.
- A hand with connected fingers is a welcome gesture with which the interlocutor wishes longevity and prosperity. But not everyone knows about it and therefore it is often associated with victory. And sometimes it’s all “look how I can”, since not everyone manages to fold their fingers like that.
- There is a smile that shows a weeping bitterly in three streams. He is often taken as laughing to tears. You need to be careful, because if you want to express unhappiness with it, you can get into an awkward situation and the person you are talking to will misunderstand the emotion.
- What do smiles with palms turned in different directions mean? Hugs, but it is used to simulate dancing and resentment.
- The sealed mouth, according to the idea, shows silence, but instead, it simply causes fear.
- Smile "moving brush." This implies "hello" and "bye", perhaps the opponent simply waves his hand. What a smile-hand means is sometimes difficult to understand, especially if the interlocutors are from different countries.
- Smile “straight palm” is conceived as “give 5!”, But can be regarded as a greeting or a stop sign.
- What does the “palms raised up” smile mean? Glee, good news, happiness, but some may regard this emoticon as an appeal to higher powers.
- Smile turd. No, this is not a candy at all, not a truffle, not a meringue! That's just nothing with this character is completely incomprehensible. How to use it and why? Why is he happy? This remains a mystery. Although there are kits where feces are depicted with sad eyes.
What does an inverted smile mean, which shows a face with a smile? This is stupidity, stupidity. Basically, it is used depending on the situation, having received such a face, you can immediately understand that the opponent is just fooling around, his words do not need to be taken seriously.
What each smile means can be found by pointing to the icon of interest. Then prompts and signs appear.
Facebook emoticons
To show feelings, you need to click on the icon below the notification field. Then all variety of smiles will be revealed. Just pick the best one, enter into the message by clicking on it.
Users of this network are often interested in what a smile means, which depicts a face and mouth with gritted teeth. This is not a grin, but a joyful smile.
In this social network, you can set emotions together with like to each notification. To do this, under the selected post, you need to hover over the “Like” link, and in the window that opens, select the appropriate image that reflects the necessary impressions. However, those Facebook users who have high speed dialing, it will be much easier and faster to dial the necessary character, knowing its code. So, typing a post or while chatting, the emoticon encoding is typed and the system independently reorganizes the code into a graphic illustration. For those users who do not want to regularly introduce codes or copy them from other sources, specialized extensions have been invented, by installing which you will significantly increase the arsenal of emoticons.
It is interesting to know why it is needed and what a smile means in the form of a basketball. Of course, this is basketball, but if you enter such a picture in the dialog box and click, then an exciting game will open.
Emoticon Features on Instagram
"Instagram" gives you the opportunity not only to add video material and photos, but also leave comments in which you can enter emotions. Users are often interested in how to do this. This kind of function is often simply absent. This is due to the fact that initially this add-on existed only for the iOS operating system. In these devices, Instagram emoticons are in the keyboard by default, you can easily pin them in a comment.
Today, the Instagram application is open in both Android and Windows Phone. In Android, everything is a little more difficult, because the keypad does not support this function directly on Instagram. An alternative solution in this case is to install an auxiliary add-on. There are a large number of such additions, but they may be paid. After a simple download, a keyboard is installed, in the options of which there are emoticons and funny faces that are ready to decorate comments and posts. In addition, in additions a large number of exciting features.
There is a set of characters that can be distinguished on absolutely all devices without exception, however, the difficulty of their application is that not all devices take into account the integrated mechanism for their input.
Users of this network often wonder about what a smiley square with a cross means. This is actually a failed emoticon that simply did not appear. This sometimes happens if, for example, someone sent it from a more advanced device or PC.
Emoticons for Viber
Directly in the application, the symbols are automatically modified into graphic pictures. The most popular emoticons are the following:
- Surprised - used during astonishment.
- Mwah - used to mark a kiss. For this reason, the image can be deciphered as “smack-smack”.
- Cool is a cool guy. The illustration depicts a guy in black glasses, who has a businesslike smile on his face.
Incredibly popular are images made up of many different emoticons. They can look very original, display feelings and even tell the whole story.
Many of the smiles and stickers are completely free, for this reason they are easily added to the message, and paid collections are easily downloaded to the application after payment by credit card.
Japanese Character Emoticons Kaomoji
And in Asia, a slightly different manner is generally accepted, which they call “coomoji”, the signs in it do not turn over, emoticons are quite easy to figure out. According to the Japanese, the eyes are considered a mirror of the human soul. For this reason, in Japanese the emphasis is placed directly on the eyes (in contrast to the western ones, where the maximum interest is given to the mouth). Such smiles can be made with the support of simple symbols from an ordinary keyboard. Unlike Western emoticons, kaomoji does not need to be mentally rotated 90 degrees. Similar values can be sent to any mobile phone and to the communication application. It’s also a great way to impress a person. You can also use such smiles in the case when there is no possibility to apply graphics:
- Joy - \ () / ٩ (‿) (oo).
- Love - (‿) (-_-) (‿).
- Empathy - (;) (o ・ _ ・) ”.
- Discontent - (; D) (#) (〈).
- Neutral smiley - :-D.
- Anger - (‡) (ʘʘ).
- Sadness - (T_T) (* -_-).
- Fear - (・ ・) \ (_ o) / (((> <))).
- Jealous - 8 (> _ <) 8.
- Indifference - (~) ())) () 〈)).
- Angel - O :-).
- Doubt - (¬_¬) (→ _ →).
- Surprise - (⊙_⊙) (o_O).
- Greeting - (・ _ ・) () (• •).
- Wink - (_-) (-_ ・).
- The man with the glasses - B-).
- The apology is <(_ _)>.
- Sleep - (o) zzZZzzZZ (-.-) ... zzz (_ _ *) Z z z.
- Corpse - (x_x).
- Special - (ʖ) ʕ • ᴥ • ʔ ⊙ᴥ⊙ !? \ _ () _ / (ᴖᴥᴖ) (ò_óˇ) (⊙⊙) ⊙_⊙ _ ⊙ 〈⊙ (・ _ ・) (¬‿¬) (ʘʘ ') (⊙⊙) o (_) o \ (•• ) (。‿‿。) (• ʖ •) ʕ⊙ᴥ⊙ʔ [• o •] ⁝⁞⁝⁞ʕ •• ʔ⁝⁞⁝⁝.
What does a smile written in characters mean? Sometimes it’s hard to understand, for example:
- : ~ - - tears of joy;
- [: |||:] - musical instrument, button accordion;
- * -> -> - carnation flower;
- (_! _) - the priest;
- (>>) - distrust;
- (u_u) - depression;
- ٩ (ˊˋ *) - to wake up;
- *: O) - clown;
- (『) - hungry;
- (3) - a kiss in Japanese;
- _ \ | /_ - Sunrise.
More often than not, the “-” sign is not printed for ease of typing. For example, they simply print ":)" or ":(". Since the mid-90s, instead of a colon, they often use the equal sign, that is, "=)" instead of ":)".
All kaomoji, without exception, are typed using Japanese fonts. In the event that such emoticons are not reflected correctly, it is necessary to configure support for East Asian styles in the operator system.
Entertaining facts
The sign has gained popularity on the Internet and SMS, but has recently been applied everywhere. This is an elementary and original way to express emotions.
An interesting fact is that no matter what color the face (transparent, yellow, red, black), but in any case it carries an extremely positive mood.
In 2012, the Indians set a world record - a forty-meter smiley was portrayed by 3737 people in colorful T-shirts.
The very first emoticon looked like this: "\ ___ /!". This image of a smile was invented by Ambrose Beers in 1912.
For the first time, the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov decided to use a parenthesis instead of a smile to express his condition.
Haribo launched the first marmalade emoticons in 2011. This proposal was an overwhelming success.
With the help of expressive faces, you can easily and quickly attract attention, including insulting. Popular among teenagers are vulgar emoticons that pick their nose, smoke, show the middle finger, and also make indecent actions, showing intimate parts of the body. From the same series - evil emoticons that fight with anything and show various mutilated parts of the body.
In conclusion, we can conclude that smiles are a real bright discovery, without which the life of an advanced user would be simply boring.