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contentbotB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish • 1 year ago

A cool guide to Japanese Emoticons

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A cool guide to Japanese Emoticons

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contentbotB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish • 1 year ago
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  • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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    56•1 year ago

    Fun fact: Japanese emoticons have more focus on the eyes and western ones on the mouth which is a general thing in the cultures. Compare Manga and western comics and the former have big eyes and a small mouth and the latter has the other way around

  • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    53•1 year ago

    NGL I prefer Japanese emoticons over the yellow faced emoji.

    • @Katrisia@lemm.ee
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      16•1 year ago

      🥺

    • @remer@lemmy.world
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      13•1 year ago

      😱

    • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7•1 year ago

      My favourite is incredulous 🤨

    • @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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      7•1 year ago

      😡😡

  • Ving Thor
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    31•1 year ago

    It’s missing (UwU) …still don’t know what it means.

    • @Agrivar@lemmy.world
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      11•1 year ago

      You lucky bastard.

    • RachelRodent
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      9•1 year ago

      closed eyes and animal mouth commonly used by furries

  • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    28•1 year ago

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • Skua
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    20•1 year ago

    “Seriously?” and “amazed” being identical would really fuck with you if you’re a bit insecure

    • @CheeseBread@lemmy.ml
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      16•1 year ago

      (o_o) (0_0) (O_O)

      I think zero or lowercase o is more “seriously?” and capital O is more “amazed.”

      • @Jomega@lemmy.world
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        14•1 year ago

        This would be easier if the guide maker typed these up instead of drawing them.

    • @sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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      8•1 year ago

      That’s actually honestly pretty true to Japanese culture.

      Honne-tatamae was one of the worst aspects of living in Japan for me, especially as an autistic person.

    • @friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      7•1 year ago

      Seriously (o_O)amazed (O_O)

    • fmstrat
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      The mouth is different.

      Edit: Or not.

      • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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        4•1 year ago

        Is it? It loos a bit different but both are _, aren’t they?

        • fmstrat
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          2•1 year ago

          Perhaps you are right. I saw the uptick on the right of amazed mouth and thought it was intended to be a different Unicode. But it looks like they’re all ASCII just stylized, so my bad.

          • @lugal@lemmy.ml
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            Big upvote for admitting your error.

            In general, emoticons are easy to write with a normal keyboard, otherwise they don’t fulfill their job of being useable in normal conversations. Exceptions are few ones that include kana which for Japanese people are easy to write but which were adopted by westerners like the shrug emoticon I have to google each time but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

            Fun fact: Japanese emoticons are called kaomoji (face characters) and developed independently from western emoticons. Emoji means “picture character” and is etymological unrelated to emoticon or emotion or anything.

            • fmstrat
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              3•1 year ago

              TIL

  • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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    14•1 year ago

    I find it interesting that these emoticons are hand-drawn.

  • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    7•1 year ago

    (OwO)

  • flicker
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    7•1 year ago

    There’s a lot more interpretations than just these.

    • @pseudo@jlai.lu
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      4•1 year ago

      Yeah… This is me blased (-_-)

  • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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    5•1 year ago

    ಠ_ಠ

  • LEX
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    deleted by creator

  • @10_0@lemmy.ml
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    deleted by creator

  • RachelRodent
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    4•1 year ago

    (^_~)

    • Aido
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      5•1 year ago

      You dropped this: \

      • RachelRodent
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        3•1 year ago

        actually no. but thanks I guess

        • Aido
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          4•1 year ago

          Oh huh, Sync renders it wrong then:

          • RachelRodent
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            4•1 year ago

            Oh I see, yea it does

          • ඞmir
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            3•1 year ago

            Sync markdown processing has unfortunately always been wrong because it’s adapted from Reddit

    • @pseudo@jlai.lu
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      4•1 year ago

      (^_-)

  • @Mango@lemmy.world
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    4•1 year ago

    What makes them Japanese? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

    • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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      4•1 year ago

      (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

  • @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2•1 year ago

    I actually needed this
    anyone got a link to all of them ? so I can copy paste

    • @Teppichbrand@feddit.org
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      3•1 year ago

      Signal messenger has them build in with the usual emojis

  • @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    2•1 year ago

    This is just what we use before the days of smartphones. And it’s definitely not something exclusive to Japan nor invented in Japan.

    • Roger Mexico
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      @cordlesslamp @partybot They sure were invented there. North American style were sideways. :) #old

      • @cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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        At least in southeast Asia, teenagers has been doing that since the late 90s - early 2000s (I was one of them).

        AFAIK, the Japanese emoticons use a lot of Japanese characters (letters?). For example, /(=✪㉨✪=)\ or (ノ´ヮ`)ノ*: ・゚

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