Kaomoji picker
Kaomoji are Japanese-style faces built from keyboard and Unicode characters, read upright rather than sideways like :-). Pick a mood, click the ones you like and copy them into a message, a post or a username.
Runs in your browser: nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
How to use it
- Choose a mood.
- Click a kaomoji to add it to the box. Click more to build a message.
- Edit the text if you like, then press Copy.
How it works
Every kaomoji here is a plain text string of Unicode characters, so copying it works like copying any text. Nothing is sent anywhere. The list is a compact hand-made set of common patterns, not a complete catalogue.
Worked example
Open Action and click the table flip, then Shrug and click the shrug. The box holds both with a space between them. Press Copy and paste the pair into a chat.
Tips
Keep the kaomoji at the end of a sentence, as Japanese writers do. If one breaks in your app, try a simpler one, or paste it into a plain-text field first to check it.
Frequently asked questions
What is a kaomoji?
The word is Japanese for "face letters". A kaomoji is a face made of characters, often from several scripts, and is read upright, for example (^_^), unlike a Western emoticon such as :-) that you tilt your head to see.
Will a kaomoji look the same everywhere?
Not always. Many use rare symbols and combining marks, and a font without them may show boxes or shift parts of the face. Plain-ASCII ones such as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ are the safest, though even that one uses the katakana ツ.
Can I combine several kaomoji?
Yes. Each click adds a kaomoji to the box with a space before it, and you can edit the box like normal text before you copy.
Why does ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lose its arm in some chat apps?
Chat apps that read Markdown treat the backslash as an escape character and remove it. Typing two backslashes, or putting the shrug in code formatting, keeps it.