Re: Emoji

From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst_at_it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:13:51 +0900

On 2014/04/03 02:00, James Lin wrote:
> Emoji or 顔文字, literally means Face word or Face Characters, essentially,

Emoji is 絵文字 (picture character), 顔文字 is kaomoji (face character).

Regards, Martin.

> provides an emotional state in the context of words. Emoji is very
> popular in APJ, and specially in Japan where most of your text will
> contain at least half dozen Emoji characters. Remember, people in Japan
> spend more than half of their commute in the train, and no talk on the
> cellphone in the train, so most people text instead.
>
> Everyone can guess what are the following emoji that used frequently in
> Japan:
>
> ヽ( ̄д ̄;)ノ - worried
>
>
>
> ヾ(@゜▽゜@)ノ - happy
>
> ヽ(#`Д´)ノ - angry
>
> 【・_・?】- confused
>
>
> there is a lot more...

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