Emoticons made from brackets and dots. Man shrugs

I was looking for emoticons for the site, and I found emoticons, albeit poppy ones. Along the way, I discovered Japanese emoticons - kaomoji. Those. It turned out that it happened, I used some of them before, but I didn’t know anything about their origin and affiliation before.

Kaomoji — text emoticons that convey emotions through a face drawn from the front, first appeared in 1986 on the ASCII-NET computer network (a service of the Japanese ASCII company).

Typically, such emoticons were created in a format similar to this (*_*). The stars served as eyes, in the center - a mouth, most often it was a sign underlining, and at the edges of the face - brackets.

Various emotions such as (“)(-_-)(“) were depicted by changing the eyes of the emoticon, for example, sadness could be expressed as “crying eyes” using the letter “T”, crying emoticon: (T_T).

A similar T_T emoticon could be used to mean “not impressed.” It was possible to emphasize the eyes using the ^^ element. Stress could be depicted like this (x_x), and nervousness like this (-_-;), the semicolon symbolized sweat dripping from nervous tension. The repetition of the element /// could represent blushing with shame.

The dash and dot symbols could replace the underscore; The dot was often used to make the mouth look pretty or to represent the nose (^.^). Although the nose or mouth could be completely absent (^^). Brackets were often replaced by curly braces (^_^). In many cases, the parentheses were omitted altogether: ^^, >.< , o_O, O.O, e_e, e.e . Двойные » и одинарные ‘ кавычки добавляли, чтобы выразить страх или стыд, подобным образом во многих используется капля пота.

Japanese Microsoft IME since version 2000 supports 2 types of emoticons after enabling Microsoft IME Spoken Language/Emotion Dictionary. In IME 2007, this feature was moved to the Emoticons dictionary.

Further variations of kaomoji can be obtained by combining special characters and hieroglyphs/letters of various alphabets.

Kaomoji in the west

English-language anime forums have adapted Japanese emoticons for use with the ASCII standard (characters available for input on Western keyboards). Therefore, in the English-speaking part of the Internet they are often called “anime emoticons”. They have also become widespread in online games, chat rooms, and other non-anime forums. Smileys like

<(^.^)>, <(^_^<), <(o_o<), <(-‘.’-)>, <(‘.’-^) или (>’;..;’)>, which consist of parentheses, mouth, nose and hands (especially hands using less than symbols< и больше >), often, for external resemblance,

Called "Kirby", after the hero of the Nintendo video game series.

(c)Nintendo not to be confused with

Parentheses are sometimes omitted, and the mouth-emphasis is prolonged, to enhance the emotion (for example, ^_________^ means very happy). And this emoticon t (-_-t) is made in the Japanese style, but has the Western meaning of “showing the middle finger” (often called “bird”), the letter “t” is used to denote the arm, hand and finger. One of the new emoticons *,..,*or `;..;´ is used to depict a vampire or other mythical fanged creature.

A mixture of Western and Japanese style

The use of both Western and Japanese styles for communication in blogs, chats, forums, etc. is called emoji. This mixture of Western and Japanese pop cultures gave birth to text emoticons turned to their side. As in English-language emoticons, the brackets will be omitted and only numbers, alphabetic symbols, and the most common punctuation marks will be used. Emojis such as O -, -3-, -w -, ‘_’, ;_;, T _T, :>, and.V. used to express mixed feelings that are difficult to convey with standard emoticons. Often, symbols are added to emoji to depict drops of sweat in an anime style, for example ^_^’ or!>______<@>;;, ;O ; and also *u *. The equal sign = can be used to represent closed eyes and anime-style eyes, for example: =0=, =3=, =w =, =A = and =7=. There are many emoticons like >o<; где точка с запятой используется для изображения капли пота, буква «о» вместо рта, а знаки больше >and less< для обозначения стресса или легкого замешательства. Число смайлов которое можно создать подобным образом бесконечно и каждый будет иметь свое значение, например >D , >=D , >P , >:P , >3 or >:3.

Dual channel style

Japanese language encodings typically use two-bit character codes. This results in a huge variety of characters suitable for use in emoji, many of which are not found in ASCII.

Most kaomoji contain Cyrillic letters, as well as letters from other alphabets foreign to the Japanese, in order to create more and morecomplex expressions comparable in complexity to ASCII art .

In order to type such kaomoji, you need an input editor equipped with a kaomoji dictionary. The user simply types the Japanese word that represents the desired emoji, and the editor immediately converts the word into complex kaomoji.

Complex compound kaomoji are called Shift JIS- art(Shift JIS is one of the Japanese language encodings). Users using the two-channel style have developed a huge number of kaomoji using characters from obscure languages ​​such as Kannada (a Dravidian language spoken in southwestern India): ಠ _ಠ (meaning disagreement, disbelief and confusion). They were soon picked up by the Forchan web forum (4chan) and then spread to other Western sites. Some of them later acquired a different meaning.

A few examples of complex and not so complex kaomoji:

Hello

(●´･ω･)ﾉ☆☆☆HELLO☆☆☆☆ヽ(･ω･｀○)

Congratulations!

~~-v(=￣ω￣).｡o○お.｡o○め.｡o○で.｡o○と.｡o○う

Bye bye

ε(´’,_c’)зβyе☆βyеε(‘c_,’｀)з゛

Good night

オ┌|･o･|┘ヤ└|･O･|┐ス┌|･.･|┐ミ└|･_･|┘

Long time no see

(ﾉ^^)乂(^^)ﾉｵﾋｻｵﾋｻ(ﾉ^^)八(^^)ﾉ

Nice to meet you

(*’-‘*)ノはじめましてヽ(*’-‘*)

Hooray! I'm home!

ヾ(o′▽`o)ﾉﾞﾟ+.ﾟﾀﾀﾞｲﾏｰﾟ+.ﾟ

Smiles

＾ω＾

▼ω▼

I Dunno LOL(Shruggie, Pozhimalkin) is a popular emoticon and English slang, shortened from the phrase I Don’t Know LOL (“I don’t know “). The canonical form is written like this: ¯\(°_o)/¯. But in RuNet this emoticon is known in this form: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Origin

The first documented online use of the phrase I Dunno LOL was in 2001. This phrase, like many other abbreviations in English, is an errative (that is, a deliberate abbreviation or distortion). Such abbreviations were popular in the early 2000s during the heyday of SMS and ICQ correspondence.

The emoticon associated with this slang phrase appeared a little later. According to Knowyourmeme, it was inspired by an image from a Spider-Man comic book. It was with Spiderman, who spreads his hands and asks: “How do I shot web?” This was a popular Fourchan meme in the early 2000s.

In 2003, someone thought of transferring a common gesture to the emoticon format, and thus the ¯\(°_o)/¯ emoticon appeared. It was not particularly popular until about 2005, but in subsequent years it began to gain popularity. He has dozens of copies in the form of macro pictures or faces, in which someone makes the same gesture with their hands.

In the case of the emoticon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the situation is a little different. It came about thanks to New York literary agency assistant Caroline Eisenmann, who decided to spruce up her dating profile and add a random Asian squiggle. It turned out that these are characters from the Japanese katakana alphabet. In the West it is known as a shruggie or "kaomoji", a Japanese facial marking.

In RuNet

In 2014, the I Dunno LOL emoticon began to be used in social networks by the online publication Lenta.ru and essentially made it a new RuNet meme. And the reason for this was the sad news about the departure of Lenta employees after a change in management. In March 2014, on the publication’s website, in the “Who makes Lenta.ru” section, those same emoticons appeared instead of names.

Then users of Twitter and VKontakte began to actively use them. And on April 1, when the former general director of VKontakte Pavel Durov announced his resignation for the first time, an emoticon appeared instead of his name at the bottom of the social network page.

It got to the point that the emoticon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, which essentially repeats the I Dunno LOL meme, has again become popular in the West. In Russia, he was given the affectionate nickname “Pozhimalkin.” Now this is a corporate smiley " Lentacha" and "Jellyfish".

Meaning

I Dunno LOL is a universal answer to any question unworthy of attention. Or when you don’t know the answer, but at the same time you are perplexed by the question or situation. Often emoticons in this meaning accompany strange and absurd news from the world and politics.

If we personify the I Dunno LOL emoticon (remember “Pozhimalkin”), then this is a character who throws up his hands in bewilderment, asking “I don’t know what the hell is going on here.”

There is another RuNet meme that is similar in meaning: “A shield to do” (an errative from the phrase “What to do”). In this case, the emoticon can be used in the form not so much of ignorance as of hopelessness and expressed by the rhetorical question above. Example: “Something can be done.”

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This emoticon can be sent using the following methods:

1. Open the emoticon palette, find this emoticon and click on it. The smiley image will appear in the input field and now all that remains is to send a message.
2. Type or copy one of the following codes into the input field and send a message:
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   (Manshrug)
   (mshrug)
   (Mshrug)
3. If someone sent you "Man shrugging" emoticon, highlight it, right-click and select "Copy selection". After that, right-click in the input field and select “Paste as text”. Now you can send a message.

# Note, that the "Man shrugging" emoticon is not supported by all versions of Skype. This emoticon became available starting from Skype 7.6 for Windows.

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# Keywords:
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Emoticons made from symbols have been found very often lately. And rightly so, because there is no other more universal and faster way to display your emotions and experiences during text correspondence. Today, almost everyone knows at least two or three sets of symbols that represent emotions. This set includes parentheses to show a person's lips, colons to show a person's eyes, and a semicolon to show a wink. However, you may come across an emoji written in symbols and not understand its meaning. This article will help you get closer to understanding text emoticons and remember combinations of symbols to display your emotions in text correspondence.

Even modern written speech is not endowed with the properties of quickly displaying emotions, so that at the time of writing the text the author could show the experiences he was experiencing. Only using a couple of sentences or phrases. Before the era of the global spread of the Internet, there were no problems with displaying the emotional component of the writer. Only with the advent of the Internet and increasing communication through writing text messages in chats, instant messengers, forums, and so on, such problems appeared. It would be inappropriate to write in a message that you are now smiling or winking at your interlocutor - it would look more like absurdity, and if there is no emotional component at all, then the result will be a dry and callous dialogue.

When communicating in real time, it is not possible to select words to display emotions. You can use a question mark for a question, an exclamation mark for admiration, but how can you show your seriousness to your interlocutor or that you were joking? All these problems were solved in the early 80s. Then it was proposed to add the symbols colon, dash and closing bracket to humorous messages, that is :-) — text version of a smiling face (side view). This set of symbols is a smiling emoticon. Subsequently, the dash and then the colon were no longer used and they were simply written as a closing parenthesis ) .

For messages that are filled with sadness and feelings, it was proposed to assign a set of text characters with a colon, a dash and an opening parenthesis, that is :-(. This set of text symbols shows a face with eyes, a nose and downturned corners of the lips. As with the joyful, smiling emoticon, in the sad emoticon they subsequently stopped writing the symbols colon and dash, but began to write the sorry opening parenthesis (.

Thus began the widespread and varied use of emoticons in the form of text symbols. The main emphasis is on quickly expressing emotions using some sets of text symbols, but semantic emoticons are also used to show states, actions, surrounding nature, and so on. There is no standard set of text characters, since everyone writes them differently.

Let's look at different options for symbolic emoticons.

Smileys from symbols on the keyboard

Indication of emoticons of emotions from symbols on the keyboard:

• Joy or a smile is most often depicted using symbols:) either:-)or =)
• Uncontrollable laughter (equivalent to the expression LOL) :-D either: D or))))
• Another designation for laughter, but more like mockery () XD or xD or >:-D (schadenfreude)
• Laughter to tears, i.e. what does the “tears of joy” emoticon mean :’-) or :’-D
• Insidious grin ):-> or ]:->
• A sad or sorrowful emoticon has text meanings:-(either =(or:(
• Symbolic designation of a very sad smiley: -C or:C or (((((again, a variant of the under-smiley)
• Mild displeasure, confusion or puzzlement:-/ or:-\
• Intense anger D-:
• Text designation of the neutral attitude emoticon:-| either: -I or._. or -_-
• The symbolic meaning of the admiration emoticon is *O* or *_* or **
• Decoding the emotion of surprise: -() or: - or: -0 or: O or O: either o_O or oO or o.O
• Variants of what the emoticon of great surprise or bewilderment 8-O could mean
• either =-O or:-
• Disappointment:-e
• Fury:-E or:E or:-t
• Confusion:-[ or %0
• Sullenness: :-*
• Sadness: :-<

Meaning of text emoticons emotional actions or gestures

• What does a winking smiley mean in text-symbolic form;-) or;)
• Sad joke: ;-(
• Happy joke: ;-)
• Options for designating a crying emoticon:_(or:~(or:"(or:*(
• Joyful crying (means "tears of joy" emoji) :~-
• Sad cry:~-(
• Angry cry: :-@
• Kiss in text notation:-* or:-()
• Hugs ()
• To show your tongue (means to tease) :-P or:-p or:-Ъ
• Mouth shut (means shhh) :-X
• It makes me sick to my stomach (meaning nausea) :-!
• Drunk or embarrassed (means either “I’m drunk” or “you’re drunk”) :*)
• You are a deer E:-) or 3:-)
• You're a clown *:O)
• Heart - either @)~>~~ or @-‘-,’-,—
• Carnation *->->—
• Old joke (meaning accordion) [:|||:] or [:]/\/\/\[:] or [:]|||[:]
• Krezi (means “you’ve gone crazy”) /:-(or /:-]
• Fifth point (_!_)

What do horizontal (Japanese) symbolic emoticons mean?

Horizontal or Japanese character emoticons are those that can be understood without tilting your head to the side, such as with a smiley face :-).

The most common horizontal text emoticons are:

• A smile (joy) is usually indicated: (^_^) or (^____^) or (n_n) or (^ ^) or \(^_^)/
• Sadness in symbols is denoted as: () or (v_v)
• The following symbols mean different degrees of surprise: (o_o) or (0_0) or (O_o) or (o_O) or (V_v) (unpleasant surprise) or (@_@) (meaning “You can be stunned”)
• Emoticon meaning admiration: (*_*) or (*o*) or (*O*)
• I'm sick: (-_-;) or (-_-;)~
• Sleeping: (- . -) Zzz. or (-_-) Zzz. or (u_u)
• Confusion: ^_^" or *^_^* or (-_-«) or (-_-v)
• Anger and rage: (-_-#) or (-_-¤) or (-_-+) or (>__<)
• What does fatigue mean: (>_<) либо (%_%)
• Depression (u_u)
• Jealousy: 8 (>_<) 8
• Distrust: (>>) or (>_>) or (<_<)
• Indifference: -__- or =__=
• This emoticon text expression means misunderstanding: (?_?) or ^o^;>
• The meaning is close to the crying emoticon: (;_;) or (T_T) or (TT.TT) or (ToT) or Q__Q
• What does winking mean: (^_~) or (^_-)
• Kiss: ^)(^ either (^)...(^) or (^)(^^)
• High five (means friend): =X= or (^_^)(^_^)
• Carrot Love: (^3^) or (*^) 3 (*^^*)
• Apology: m (._.) m
• Greedy emoticon: ($_$)

Cool emoticons from symbols

Cool emoticons consisting of several symbols - your imagination is limitless.

The emoticon ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯ became widespread on the RuNet not so long ago. And he was born thanks to Caroline Eisenmann, an assistant at a New York literary agency.

While editing her profile on the OkCupid dating site, Caroline decided that the profile would be more memorable if she added something interesting to the name. It was supposed to be something "frivolous" but "slightly melancholy." This is how this emoticon was created, depicting an ironically smiling man spreading his arms.

OkCupid refused to approve a profile with this emoticon, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ has already begun its victorious march across the Internet

Such complex symbols are especially characteristic of the Japanese language: there, not only punctuation marks, but service symbols, as well as letters of the katakana alphabet are used to create emoticons.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ began to actively gain popularity after rapper Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's speech at the 2010 Video Music Awards. After his inappropriate intervention, he shrugged his shoulders and spread his arms, agreeing with the wrongness of his action. A post immediately appeared on Twitter: “Kanye’s shoulders -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯,” conveying the rapper’s gesture. The post began to gain retweets, and the emoticon began to appear in a variety of contexts; in particular, such a gesture became a feature of one of the famous teams of Starcraft players.

Internet users began to find this characteristic gesture everywhere. One Reddit blogger spotted it on Han Solo from the original Star Wars trilogy. Another one is from Mysterio, the villain from Spider-Man.

However, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ remains closely associated with literate culture. This is explained by the fact that it is impossible to pronounce it, only print it or draw it with your hands. Users surveyed by The Awl (including writers, editors and journalists) say that this emoji helps them avoid wasting extra time in chats explaining how they feel. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ helps them express apologies (with some tinge of awkwardness), doubts and melancholic regret.

And this, of course, is Zen Buddhist calm and acceptance of the world around us as it is.

¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯

Although there is also this version:

On March 12, Lenta.ru reported that the owner of the merged company Rambler&Co, Alexander Mamut, decided to resign editor-in-chief Galina Timchenko, who had worked in this position since 2004.

On March 13, 39 employees of the publication wrote letters of resignation, and already on March 17, in the “Who makes Lenta.ru” section, emoticons began to appear instead of the names of some of them.

The “¯\_(ツ)_/¯” emoticon with a smiling man shrugging his shoulders carefree almost immediately began to be used by other media to announce events related to Lenta.ru.

They also noted the disappearance of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

On April 1, when former VKontakte CEO Pavel Durov announced his resignation for the first time, an emoticon appeared instead of his name at the bottom of the social network page.

Two months later, Western publications reported that the same smiley had gained incredible popularity on the English-speaking Internet. Netizens, as before in Russia, began to publish numerous jokes using it. However, none of the publications attributes a “Russian trace” to the trend.

And the media began to publish instructions on how this character set can be typed more easily without copying it to Mac and iPhone.

"¯\_(ツ)_/¯" is known in the West as "shruggie" or "kaomoji", a Japanese facial marking. It differs from emojii and emoticons by using characters from the katakana alphabet.

This emoji first went viral on the English-language Internet in 2009, when rapper Kanye West ruined the moment of presenting an award to singer Taylor Swift by shouting into the crowd that Beyoncé had shot the best video. Before leaving the stage, he made a gesture that looked similar to "¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

Two years later, the emoji became popular again thanks to a world-class Starcraft II player named SeleCT. With its help, he completed all victorious matches, and the set of symbols itself acquired the meaning “sup son” (“well, son?”).

By the way, you are probably asking how to dial it? So, ツ is a character in the Japanese katakana alphabet, and not an emoticon; to make it, you need to install a Japanese font!

Control panel - clock, language and region - change keyboard layout - change keyboard - add - Japanese (Japan) - OK, Done)))

Kaomoji (顔文字) is a Japanese emoji style and is essentially synonymous with Japanese emoticons. This concept is formed by a combination of words: kao (顔 - face) + moji (文字 - symbol, written sign).

The Japanese are a very emotional and creative nation. Therefore, in Japan, emoticons are more common than anywhere else in the world.

Many Japanese are good at drawing, because Japanese is the language of drawings. The example of anime and manga shows how accurately the authors manage to convey the various emotions of the characters with just a few simple lines. Probably, kaomoji to a certain extent owes its existence to these types of Japanese art.

According to the Japanese, eyes are the mirror of a person's soul. Therefore, if in Western emoticons the greatest attention is paid to the mouth, in Japanese emoticons it is the eyes. In addition, unlike Western emoticons, kaomoji does not need to be mentally rotated 90 degrees.

Japanese emoticons are extremely diverse. On the Internet you can see the figure 10,000, but in reality there are many more. This diversity is explained by at least two factors:

• unlike the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet, which are most often written in single-byte encodings, Japanese writing requires at least double-byte encodings that have a wider character coverage;
• Kaomoji can denote not only individual emotions, but also complex actions, and their combinations - even entire stories.

Kaomoji are divided into categories depending on the emotional component, the type of action or object indicated. Also in these emoticons you can often find hieroglyphs that carry additional semantic connotations.