颜文字 ( ◕‿◕)
200+ 日式颜文字按情绪分类：开心、伤心、爱、耸肩 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯、Lenny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)、翻桌 (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻、动物、可爱。点击即复制。
Happy (◕‿◕)
Smiling, laughing, cheerful faces. The default kaomoji vibe — use to add warmth to messages, captions, or replies.
Sad (╥﹏╥)
Crying, disappointed, melancholic faces. For empathy, venting, or expressing soft emotional reactions.
Love (♡°▽°♡)
Heart-eyes, blushing, romantic. For partners, fan accounts, K-pop comments, soft girl bios.
Shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"I don't know" / "whatever" emoticons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is the most-copied kaomoji on the internet.
Lenny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The infamous Lenny face — implies the speaker just said something sus or knowing. From 4chan circa 2012, now everywhere.
Angry (╬ Ò﹏Ó)
Mad, irritated, disapproving. (ಠ_ಠ) for side-eye, ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ for full rage.
Table Flip (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
The classic table flip and put-the-table-back ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ). For drama, frustration, comedic effect.
Animals ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Bears ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, cats (=^･ω･^=), bunnies. The cottagecore / kawaii animal kaomoji set.
Cute ✧
Sparkly, ultra-kawaii kaomoji with stars and hearts decorations. Soft girl / aesthetic bio favorites.
Wave (^◡^)っ
Hello, goodbye, reaching out. For greeting messages, sign-offs, and friendly interactions.
What are Kaomoji?
Kaomoji (顔文字, literally "face characters") are Japanese-style text emoticons built entirely from Unicode characters. Unlike Western emoticons that you read sideways ( :) ), kaomoji are read upright — the parentheses are the face outline, and combinations of dots, brackets, and decorative characters create eyes, mouths, hands, and expressions. They originated in 1980s Japanese ASCII art and exploded online via Niconico, 2ch, and later mainstream Western internet via 4chan and Tumblr. Today the most-copied kaomoji on the global internet is the shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, followed by Lenny face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and the table flip (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻. This page collects 200+ kaomoji organized by emotion — happy, sad, love, shrug, Lenny, angry, table flip, animals, cute, wave.
Why Use This Kaomoji Library
200+ Kaomoji, 10 Emotions
Organized by what you want to express — happy / sad / love / shrug / Lenny / angry / table flip / animals / cute / wave. Find the right face in seconds, not in a flat list of 1,000.
Click to Copy
One click copies the full character sequence to your clipboard, including the parentheses, accents, and decorations.
Anchor Navigation
Jump to a category from the top — useful on mobile to skip past the categories you don't need.
Survives Anywhere
Pure Unicode characters — paste in Discord, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, WhatsApp, email, plain text files. No app or font install.
Renders Identically Across Devices
Unlike emoji (which look different on Apple vs Google vs Microsoft fonts), kaomoji render the same on every platform because they're just regular characters.
Same Color as Your Text
Kaomoji inherit your text color. They look like part of the line, not a colored sticker glued onto it.
Where Kaomoji Work
Kaomoji are standard Unicode characters and render on every modern device. Some kaomoji use combining characters (like Lenny face's ͡ ͜) that may render slightly differently across fonts.
What People Use Kaomoji For
Reactions in chat
Drop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ instead of "idk" in Discord/Slack. Adds tone without the heaviness of a full emoji.
Bios with personality
End an Instagram or TikTok bio with (◕‿◕) or ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ — adds character without screaming "I'm trying to be aesthetic".
Reaction comments
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ on a frustrating tweet, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) on something sus. Classic internet vocabulary.
Anime / weeb communities
Kaomoji are the native vocabulary of Japanese-internet culture — Niconico, 2ch, anime Twitter, Discord servers for JP media. Fits the aesthetic naturally.
The most-copied kaomoji on the internet (and what they mean)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Shrug. Means "I don't know" or "whatever, not my problem." Origin: typed casually in Japanese chat in the 2000s; popularized in English-speaking internet via Twitter circa 2014. The most-copied kaomoji of all time. Note the underscores and the katakana ツ ("tsu") for the face — not a regular Western letter.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) — Lenny face. Implies the speaker just said (or is about to say) something innuendo-laden, suspicious, or knowingly inappropriate. Born on 4chan around 2012, named after Lenny from a Finnish webcomic. The ͡ ͜ are combining characters that draw the eyebrows and lower-mouth curve.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ — Table flip. For dramatic frustration. Read left to right: angry person on the left, table being thrown on the right. Pair with ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ) — the "put the table back" follow-up. Classic in long-form internet drama.
Kaomoji vs emoji: why kaomoji still matter
Emoji are images defined by the Unicode standard but rendered differently by each platform — Apple's 😀 looks different from Google's 😀, and from Microsoft's, and from WhatsApp's. Kaomoji are made of regular characters, so they render identically everywhere. A Lenny face in your Discord message looks the same to every viewer regardless of device.
Kaomoji also pass through systems that strip emoji — old SMS, plain-text emails, ASCII-only Slack channels, code comments, log files. If you need a tone-of-voice marker that works in any text channel, kaomoji are still the right tool decades after emoji took over the mainstream.
Building bigger kaomoji combos
Many kaomoji you see online are combos — multiple kaomoji together, or kaomoji + emoji + symbols. Common patterns: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ (sparkle throw), ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ ♡ (bear hug + heart), (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ + ┬─┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ) (flip + restore).
To build your own: pick a face from the relevant emotion category above, then add an arm/hand symbol (っ ノ ﾉ つ), then a decoration (✧ ♡ ☆). The ASCII art tradition is to keep it under 30 characters or it becomes hard to parse.
FAQ — Kaomoji
What's the difference between kaomoji and emoji?
Emoji are images defined by Unicode but rendered differently per platform (Apple's 😀 ≠ Google's 😀). Kaomoji are made of standard text characters that render identically on every device. Both are Unicode, but kaomoji are characters, emoji are images of characters.
Why does Lenny face look broken on my phone?
Lenny face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) uses combining diacritical marks (U+0361, U+035C) — the ͡ and ͜ — to draw eyebrows and the mouth curve. Some Android versions and older fonts render combining marks slightly offset. The character data is identical; only the visual alignment varies.
Can I use kaomoji in usernames?
Most platforms allow kaomoji in display names, server nicknames, and bios. Username "handles" (like Instagram @, Twitter @) are usually ASCII-only and strip kaomoji. Use the display name field instead.
Is the shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ a kaomoji or just typed characters?
Both, really. It's typed from ASCII characters (¯ \ _ /) and one Japanese katakana ツ. But "kaomoji" includes any text-based face, including ASCII faces — the term is broad.
Do screen readers handle kaomoji well?
Mostly not — screen readers read each character individually ("left-paren bullet asterisk under-bar bullet right-paren"), which is noisy and meaningless. Don't use kaomoji for critical information; use them for tone only.
Where did kaomoji come from?
Japanese ASCII art communities in the 1980s, spreading through Niconico Douga and 2chan/2ch in the 2000s. Mainstream Western adoption came via 4chan (Lenny face) and Tumblr (cute kaomoji) in the early 2010s. The shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ became universal around 2014.
Can I make custom kaomoji?
Yes — combine a face (two eye characters around a mouth character, all wrapped in parentheses) with optional decorations. Example: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)っ + ♡ = ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)っ ♡. Keep it under 30 characters or it becomes unreadable in a chat message.