Kaomoji: Japanese Text Faces
Click-to-copy kaomoji by mood: happy, love, sad, table-flip rage and more.
Kaomoji: Japanese text faces, click to copy
Upright faces built entirely from text, grouped by mood. Click one to copy it and paste it into a chat, a bio, a stream title, or a commit message when words fail. Because kaomoji are plain characters, they look the same on every platform, unlike emoji.
Why they look so much more expressive
Kaomoji borrow characters from Japanese scripts, Greek, Cyrillic, and phonetic notation, which gives them a huge palette of eyes and mouths compared with Western sideways smileys. The style grew out of 1980s Japanese forums and never stopped evolving.
Frequently asked questions
What is a kaomoji?
Japanese text faces read upright rather than sideways, built from wide Unicode characters: (´。• ᵕ •。`) for cute, (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ for rage. The name combines kao (face) and moji (character).
How are kaomoji different from emoticons and emoji?
Western emoticons like :) are read sideways, emoji are pictures rendered by the platform, and kaomoji are upright faces made of text. Kaomoji stay exactly as you typed them on every platform, since they are just characters.
How do I type kaomoji?
Mostly you copy them, they use Japanese and other scripts no single keyboard covers. Japanese IMEs can convert words like kaomoji into faces, but click-to-copy is the practical route outside Japan.
What does ┻━┻ mean, and can I put the table back?
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ is flipping a table in frustration. And yes: ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) is the companion face calmly putting it back.