Kaomoji — Japanese Emoticons & Text Faces ＼(＾▽＾)／

A kaomoji (顔文字, “face characters”) is a Japanese emoticon built from text symbols — like (＾▽＾) or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — read upright, without tilting your head the way you do for a Western :) smiley. They use characters from many scripts to draw expressive faces and poses.

Tap any kaomoji on this page and it's copied to your clipboard instantly — then paste it into Discord, Instagram, TikTok, texts or docs. Use the search box to find one fast, and right-click or long-press to save favourites to your book.

Yes. Kaomoji are plain Unicode text, not images, so they paste and display on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and the web with no app or special keyboard. A few rare glyphs may fall back to a slightly different font on some devices, but the face still reads the same.

Emoticons are simple sideways faces like :-). Emoji are the coloured picture characters like 😊. Kaomoji are the Japanese style — horizontal text faces like (｡♥‿♥｡) that don't need rotating and can be far more expressive. This picker has all three.