Kaomoji - emoticons born in East Asia. These text emoticons can be understood without turning them. Kaomoji smileys schematically depict emotions, gestures, facial expressions not following the pattern of real people, but focusing to characters from anime and manga. A kind of Japanese-style image of smileys, whose creation tools are: kanji characters, punctuation marks and other symbols. The concept of kaomoji consists of a combination of two words: kao (person) + moji (symbol, written sign).
Kaomoji successfully captured the entire world cyberspace, but continue to retain the greatest popularity in such a creative country as Japan. In the deep opinion of the Japanese themselves, the eyes are a mirror of people souls. Therefore, if in smileys of the European type the highest attention is paid to the mouth, in Japanese - to the eyes.
The Japanese nation draws awesome, it is perfectly visible in an anime and manga. It is mangaka who is excellent at showing the diverse emotions of his characters with a set of just a couple of simplest lines.
At the very beginning of the Internet communication path, there was a big drawback in terms of understanding each other, due to the lack of a face-to-face dialogue. The appearance of text emoticons and kaomoji became a kind of creative decision from users to correct the current situation.
On the Internet you can find many Japanese emoticons. On our site, at the moment, 179 kaomoji is collected, and this list will grow over time. This amount of kaomoji is easy to explain: unlike Cyrillic and Latin, which are most often stored in single-byte encodings, Japanese writing needs at least two-byte encodings that have a more extensive character coverage. Japanese emoji mean not only specific emotions, but also a whole sequence of actions.
Look at the kaomoji list here and select the text smiley that is most interesting for you, move the cursor over it (a pop-up field with an emoji value will appear) and click on it with the left mouse button to go to the page of the selected Japanese smiley. Perhaps you will find there even more options for expressing this emotion or action.
