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An emoticon is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood.
There are different types of
emoticons:
Western style:
Usually, emoticons have the
eyes on the left, followed by nose and the mouth: :( , <3 , :-{ or :{D .
Japanese style:
Users from
Japan popularized a style of emoticons that can be understood without
tilting one's head to the left: (^.^), >.<, o_O, O.O.
Further variations of
emoticons may be produced by using combining characters, e.g. ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ and ᶘᵒᴥᵒᶅ.
Eastern style:
Eastern emoticons generally
are not rotated, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional
complexity: ｡◕‿◕｡ , (^▼^) , ~_~ , (-_-') .
Korean style:
In South Korea, emoticons use
Korean Hangul letters. There are countless number of emoticons
that can be formed with such combinations of Korean jamo letters: ㅜ_ㅠ, 'ㅅ', ㅜㅇㅡ, -_^.
There are multimedia varitions
of emoticons too!
A portmanteau of emotion and sound,
an emotisound is a brief sound transmitted and played back
during the viewing of a message, typically an IM message or e-mail message.
Caro&Blue
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