Uki Uki NihonGO! Lesson 34 – Japanese Emoticons

 Here we’ll introduce 顔文字 (kaomoji), Japanese emoticons. They look quite different from English ones. Below are some examples.

Emoticons/Kaomoji

🙂 smile (^^) (^_^)

😀 big smiley (^○^) o(*^▽^*)o

😉 wink (^_-) – ☆ (∈^▽ﾟ) -☆

🙁 sad (T_T)゜・(つД｀)・゜・。

XD excited

:O surprised w(ﾟoﾟ)w Σ(°Д°；)

angry (-_-ﾒ)　ヾ(｡｀Д´｡)ﾉ彡

:S confused (@_@)

sorry m(_ _)m (ToT)ゞ

hello! (^O^)/⭐︎ (*^O^)ﾉ

goodbye ヾ(^_^) (TωT)ﾉ~~~

congrats (*^o^)ﾉ口☆口ヽ(^-^*)

There are only a small sample! Feel free to look them up online.

Here some animal Kaomoji. Can you guess which animals these are?

(=^ェ^=) ネコ (neko) Cat

(ﾟ∈ﾟ　) トリ (tori) Bird

(´･(ｪ)･｀) クマ (kuma) Bear

￣(=∵=)￣ ウサギ (usagi) Rabbit

U^ェ^U イヌ (inu) Dog

サカナ (sakana) Fish

Here’s one more!

／^o^＼ 富士山 (fujisan) Mount Fuji!