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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

NGL I prefer Japanese emoticons over the yellow faced emoji.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

My favourite is incredulous 🤨

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: Japanese emoticons have more focus on the eyes and western ones on the mouth which is a general thing in the cultures. Compare Manga and western comics and the former have big eyes and a small mouth and the latter has the other way around

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

"Seriously?" and "amazed" being identical would really fuck with you if you're a bit insecure

[–] CheeseBread@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

(o_o) (0_0) (O_O)

I think zero or lowercase o is more "seriously?" and capital O is more "amazed."

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

That's actually honestly pretty true to Japanese culture.

Honne-tatamae was one of the worst aspects of living in Japan for me, especially as an autistic person.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The mouth is different.

Edit: Or not.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it? It loos a bit different but both are _, aren't they?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps you are right. I saw the uptick on the right of amazed mouth and thought it was intended to be a different Unicode. But it looks like they're all ASCII just stylized, so my bad.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Big upvote for admitting your error.

In general, emoticons are easy to write with a normal keyboard, otherwise they don't fulfill their job of being useable in normal conversations. Exceptions are few ones that include kana which for Japanese people are easy to write but which were adopted by westerners like the shrug emoticon I have to google each time but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fun fact: Japanese emoticons are called kaomoji (face characters) and developed independently from western emoticons. Emoji means "picture character" and is etymological unrelated to emoticon or emotion or anything.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago
[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I actually needed this
anyone got a link to all of them ? so I can copy paste

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

Signal messenger has them build in with the usual emojis

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is just what we use before the days of smartphones. And it's definitely not something exclusive to Japan nor invented in Japan.

[–] rogermexico@mas.to 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@cordlesslamp @partybot They sure were invented there. North American style were sideways. :) #old

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

At least in southeast Asia, teenagers has been doing that since the late 90s - early 2000s (I was one of them).

AFAIK, the Japanese emoticons use a lot of Japanese characters (letters?). For example, /(=✪㉨✪=)\ or (ノ´ヮ`)ノ*: ・゚