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About Kaomoji
A fast, installable picker for Japanese emoticons — copy & paste 820+ kaomoji, text faces, emoji and symbols across 23 categories and 93 tags.
What it is
Kaomoji (顔文字, “face characters”) are Japanese emoticons read upright — no need to
tilt your head like :). They range from a simple shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to
expressive faces like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ and (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻. This site lets you search them
by feeling (“happy”, “table flip”, “bear”), tap to copy, and paste anywhere.
Fast & offline
Every page is static HTML for instant loads, and the whole picker installs as a Progressive Web App — add it to your home screen or desktop and it works fully offline. Your favourites and recents are saved locally in your browser, so they stay private to your device.
Privacy
No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking cookies. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookieless, aggregate page views only). To make the picker better we also keep anonymous, aggregate tallies of which kaomoji get copied and what people search for — with no cookies, no identifiers and no way to tie any of it to you or your device, so it can show what's popular but never who did what. Your favourites and recents stay in your browser and never leave your device.
Open source
Kaomoji is free and open source, licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0. Browse the code, file an issue, or contribute on GitHub. The interface is set in Fredoka, Nunito and Noto Sans JP, and the social share images use Noto fonts — all © their respective authors, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.