Users of social networks and messengers know what they look like and what emoticons are for. Japanese ideograms that accurately convey emotions with dots, dashes, commas, letters and other symbols have gained popularity all over the world. Smile has received its wide distribution on the Internet and SMS, but today it is used everywhere.
What is kaomoji?
Kaomoji are Japanese emoticons, the image of which is based on hieroglyphs, punctuation marks and other symbols. They are used to express the emotions of the interlocutor during correspondence. In translation, Japanese kaomoji emoticons mean βfaceβ and βsignβ. The main differences between European and Japanese emoticons are not only in horizontal and vertical spelling, but also in the details. So, in writing Western smiles much attention is paid to the mouth β: -Oβ, and in Japanese - to the eyes βO_Oβ. The Japanese are a creative and emotional nation, so they use kaomoji always and everywhere.
Features
Everyone knows that the eyes are a mirror of the human soul. Japanese emoticons just confirm this. A big plus and at the same time a feature of kaomoji is vertical spelling. There is no need to mentally expand the emoticon to read it. The variety, originality, ease of writing of Japanese emoticons make it possible to understand them, regardless of knowledge of the language. On the Internet there are more than ten thousand kaomoji, given that there are many more. The Japanese easily depict any emotion using text smiles or characters. The reason for the variety is due to double-byte encoding (as opposed to Latin or Cyrillic), which covers more characters. In addition, Japanese kaomoji emoticons denote not just emotions, but also complex combinations. It can be actions (going to the cinema, taking a shower) and even a whole story written by symbols.
Emoticons are divided into categories depending on emotions, type, designation of actions or image of a specific object. Often in kaomoji you can find the semantic load, supplemented by hieroglyphs. Incredibly, they convey positive, negative and neutral emotions: joy (ββΏβ), love (β€Οβ€), sympathy, embarrassment, anger, discontent, fear, sadness, indifference, doubt, surprise. For example, in joyful emoticons, the eyes are high, and the mouth is lower or in the middle. Cute and pretty kaomoji in the Land of the Rising Sun are called kawaii. Japanese smiles depict not only human emotions, but also animals, actions, objects, food, music, games.
How to become a kaomoji master?
In order to learn how to create complex Japanese emoticons on your own, you must have a whole arsenal of symbols, layout and other tools. In addition, writing such smiles takes a lot of time. Today, inserting kaomoji into the message text is easy. There are programs for Android and Apple with ready-made emoticons. Also, Japanese character emoticons may be available for Internet browsers. Chrome suggests users add a floating window with access to kaomoji. Dividing into categories, the ability to quickly copy and paste with the touch of a button in a conversation simplify writing smileys manually. Google Play has the ability to download emoticons and kaomoji keyboards. For Windows, you will have to use or install additional software. IOS users are, no doubt, more fortunate. The developers have created the perfect keyboard layout for the iPad and iPhone.
Designations
The Japanese style of writing smiles is rich, a variety of emotions, feelings. Built on the basis of kanji characters, punctuation and symbols, it has gained great popularity in cyberspace. Japanese emoticons are more like drawings, which is why the accuracy of transmitting the emotions of an invisible interlocutor reaches a maximum. When writing kaomoji, the Japanese often add tears, stars, hearts for greater expressiveness and transmission of feelings. Love emoticons use combinations of the heart β‘ symbol, a set of English letters chu to indicate a kiss, and also use an asterisk, the letter βoβ (Β° β‘ Β° β‘).
Symbols that imitate blush, drops of sweat, a face covered by hands (asterisk, letters, semicolon) are used to indicate embarrassment emotions (β_β;). If you need to express sympathy through the message, you will need a few Japanese emoticons (ο½ γ» _ γ») γ β(γ _ <γ). Negative feelings and emotions are expressed by wrinkling the face, hence the appearance of similar kaomoji from the corresponding symbols (οΌ οΌ οΌ). Anger is indicated by emoticons consisting of several elements, with an emphasis on the eyes (ο½ γΌ Β΄). They are the reflection of the state of the interlocutor. As in life, the emotion of fear is indicated by avoiding danger. Kaomoji denote fear using forward and backward slashes, with symbols imitating a scream, covering your face with your hands (γ Ο γ½).
Text
One of the favorite hobbies of users of social networks and messengers is collecting text smiles. There is a huge catalog of emoticons that denote emotions, actions and objects. The widespread use of Unicode encodings has allowed users to access tens of thousands of different characters, and these are individual characters from exoteric layouts. The easiest to date are text emoticons. Japanese kaomoji are composed of complex characters, while text kaomoji are composed of ordinary and simple characters: D :-D = D: ^ D. When writing such smiles, brackets, dashes, punctuation marks, letters are used. They are simple to understand and do not need further explanation.
Most popular smiley
Kaomoji, which has become a meme, is gaining popularity on the Internet. In Europe, the smiley βΒ― \ _ (γ) _ / Β―β was called βpozhimalkinβ. It denotes a carefree smiling man who shrugs. It is used not only for writing messages, but also in the media, speeches, advertising. Smile differs from ordinary emoticons in writing. To create it, use characters from the complete Japanese alphabet. In traditional kaomoji, parentheses, letters, asterisks, and dashes are used to construct them. Beauty, characteristic style, convenience - these are the differences between Japanese smiles. VK and other social networks have long had the opportunity to copy ready-made kaomoji to the message text without restrictions (^ _ ^).