Emoticons

thumb|Example of a smiley face thumb|An example of an emoticon smiley face (represented using a colon followed by a [[parenthesis) used in direct communication, as seen in this screenshot of an email]] thumb|A smiley emoji

thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=0.8|An emoticon portraying a smiling face thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=0.8|Examples of kaomoji smileys

thumb|Stylized uwu emoticon as a blushing face|class=skin-invert-image uwu (), also stylized UwU, is an emoticon representing a cute face. The u characters represent closed eyes, while the w represents a cat mouth. It is used to express various warm, happy, or affectionate feelings.

Unicode block (U+1F600-1F64F) containing symbolic emotional pictograms showing human or animal faces and gestures

thumb|upright=0.8|Kaomoji on a Japanese NTT Docomo mobile phone thumb|A Kaomoji painting in Japan

informal term used for expressing sincerity, faith, love, or good friendship

thumb|upright=0.7|right|Jiong (囧) in Regular script|Kaishu, Clerical, Seal, and Oracle bone scripts (top to bottom)

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