Japanese Emoticons
Trying to figure out the meaning of an emoticon you saw on a Japanese website, or just want to find some neat-looking Japanese smilies? Look no further, dear readers: Ken Y-N of What Japan Thinks has launched Evoticon.net, online super site for Japanese emoticons!
As you might expect from the site’s title, it has a feature that lets viewers vote and assign ratings to their favorite emoticons. The highest ranking emoticons are placed on the front page of Evoticon.
I have not yet had the time to browse every single emoticon (the database contains thousands), but here are a few of my favorites from the sections I have seen so far:
Some “Hot! Hot! Hot!” faces:
_(ﾟﾛﾟ_)ﾎｯﾄ! ﾎｯﾄ!(_ﾟﾛﾟ)__(ﾟﾛﾟ_)ﾎｯﾄ! ﾎｯﾄ!(_ﾟﾛﾟ)_
ｼｬｹｶﾞﾂﾚﾀ♪(*￣(ｴ)￣)o/￣￣￣￣￣￣~ >ﾟ )))>彡
∥wc∥ ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ ﾌｳｯ♪
Peeking out from behind a wall:
| |_･) ﾁﾗﾘ!
A pig saying, “congratulations!”:
才乂〒~├ゥ♪(＝｀(●●)´＝)ﾉ
An angry face saying “f— you” in katakana:
(｀ε´ﾒ)ρ))ﾌｧｯｸﾕｰ!!
Dull faces expressing a lack of interest:
ふ━━( ´_ゝ`)━( ´_ゝ`)━( ´_ゝ`)━━ん
Check out the site, and please share your favorite discoveries in the comments section of this post!
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