Explore 500,000+ kaomoji—upright Japanese emoticons built from Unicode characters, symbols, letters, and punctuation—to express moods, reactions, actions, animals, and aesthetic styles. Search cute, happy, smiling, sad, crying, worried, angry, love, heart, cat, bunny, angel, star, sparkle, and shrug text faces, or filter them by style, intensity, size, and compatibility. Copy any kaomoji instantly, save favorites on your device, or collect several to paste into chats, bios, usernames, captions, and social posts.
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A kaomoji is a Japanese-style text emoticon made with letters, punctuation and Unicode symbols. Most are read upright, with the eyes, mouth, arms and decorations working together to show a mood or action.
Search a feeling, choose a filter or paste a face you already have.
The exact text is placed on your clipboard. No account is required.
Use it in messages, comments, bios, usernames or documents.
A face can carry different shades of meaning depending on context. These short labels describe the most common reading.
| Kaomoji | Common meaning | Tone | Useful for |
|---|---|---|---|
| (◕‿◕) | Warm happiness | Friendly and positive | Greetings, thanks, good news |
| (╥﹏╥) | Crying or deep sadness | Vulnerable, dramatic | Disappointment, sympathy |
| (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄) | Embarrassed affection | Shy and sweet | Compliments, romantic replies |
| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | Uncertainty or acceptance | Casual, indifferent | “I don’t know,” light reactions |
| (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ | Extreme frustration | Angry, theatrical | Playful rage, gaming reactions |
| (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ | Offering a hug | Caring and supportive | Comfort, affection, reunion |
Small character changes can completely change the emotion. Search uses these parts as structured attributes—not just loose keywords.
Mix a boundary, eyes, mouth and decoration. Your result is plain text and ready to copy.
Kaomoji are text, so they can be pasted into most places that accept ordinary characters. Appearance may vary with the available font.
Add emotion without relying on a graphic emoji. Choose short faces for fast conversation.
Use compact, low-risk combinations where character limits and spacing matter.
Paste into any editor that supports Unicode. Always preview unusual symbols before publishing.
Each character is drawn by the fonts available on the device. The text may remain identical while spacing, symbol shape or alignment changes. This is why the library keeps the exact copy string separate from its search-normalized version.
Try an emotion such as nervous, an action such as wave, a character such as bear, or a component such as star eyes. Common misspellings of kaomoji are recognized without creating low-quality typo pages.
The word combines Japanese terms associated with “face” and “character.” In everyday use, it means an upright text emoticon such as (◕‿◕).
A kaomoji is a sequence of text characters that you can edit and copy. An emoji is typically a single encoded pictograph rendered as an image-like glyph.
Tap Copy on any card, move to the app or document where you want it, then use Paste. If clipboard permission is unavailable, select the displayed face and copy it manually.
Yes. Select the heart on a card. Favorites are stored in your browser on this device and do not require an account.
The underlying characters may be the same, but another app or device can use different fonts or spacing. Preview detailed faces in the destination before publishing.
Yes. Paste the complete face into the search box. An exact match appears first, followed by faces with related components or meanings.
The production database should favor relevant, accurately labeled faces over raw volume. This prototype combines 98 curated examples with a virtual catalogue of 499,902 generated draft variations. Review every draft before treating it as verified content.
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