Emoticons (emotional icons) are used to compensate for the inability to convey voice inflections, facial expressions, and bodily gestures in written communication. Some emoticons are better known as "smileys." Emoticons can be very effective toward avoiding misinterpretation of the writer's intents. While there are no standard definitions for the following emoticons, we have supplied their most usual meanings. In Japan hardly any email or IM message get written which doesn’t contain some form of smileys or emoticons. While emoji (graphical presentations of emoticons) are probably most known, “kaomoji” (from “kao” = face, “moji” = character) are the Japanese version of Western emoticons and there are practically endless variations available. The biggest difference to the Western counterpart is probably that they are read horizontally and you don’t need to turn your head to understand them, for example the Western emoticon for “Happy” looks like this :-) while the Japanese version looks like this (^_^).
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It's interesting,i like it
HAHA! This is hilarious!
AMAZING. perfect demonstrations!
I still don't get it.
wtf. japanese r fuckin crazy...
Superb
Love them, except number 8, which I can't see.
But how do you type them???
Anonymous - They use the ANSI character set instead of the ASCII set. This is because the ASCII set only provides a maximum number of 256 characters (that can be addressed in 1 Byte). You simply can't type the Kanji characters on your keyboard when using an ASCII compliant Font
because Kanji uses too much Characters that won't fit the ASCII standard :) cphx@hushmail.com
WoW!!
|:3ミ is BAKABON's PAPA.
But you may not read this because of 'the ASCII set' issue.