Therefore, emoticons are also created with characters that represent drinks. The Japanese love to hold drinking parties. Running emoticons are made by adding special movement effects. The character φ looks like a pen that makes the emoticons look like they are writing. The signs look like they’re watching someone behind a wall. embarrassmentįor this one uses anime and manga with the characters: i,ﾊ,, 〃 nosebleeds In addition, you can try to make the emoticons look as if they were hiding your face with your hands. The following symbols can be used to show embarrassment: Figures that have droplets of sweat on their faces or those that are blushing (*, o). Japanese also love to add various effects like stars, tears of joy for better understanding. Japanese girls often use w (omega) for mouths because they think these kaomoji look cute, like saying kawaii. If you want to emphasize happy emoticons, use high-fitting eyes. These can also be given special figures for additional accents. They can be broken down into categories based on emotional components of form, action, and object.
Kaomoji can express not only individual emotions, but also complex actions, things and even stories unlike the Latin alphabet, which is characterized by individual characters, the Japanese script requires many more charactersĢ. This diversity can be explained by two aspects:ġ. Kaomoji came about through manga and anime fans who wanted to clear up these misunderstandings.Įmojis are very diverse, some internet sources list around 10,000, but there are many more. With the dawn of the internet and instant messaging, the lack of face-to-face communication created difficulties. Manga and anime are good examples of how illustrators are able to create a range of emotions through simple lines. Many Japanese are good at drawing because Japanese is a language made up of pictures. In addition, kaomoji are so popular because you can read them from the side. Therefore, unlike Western emoticons, they focus on the eyes. The Japanese think that the eyes are the mirror to the soul, which is also the case in other cultures. Japanese emoticons are really very emotional and have now spread all over the world. The concept is based on the combination of two Kanji words, “kao” (顔= face) and “moji” (文字= character). The word Kaomoji is used synonymously with Japanese emoticons. The Japanese emoticons are used to convey feelings and states when writing and communicating online. Kaomoji is a very popular Japanese style emoticon made up of Japanese symbols and punctuation.
Because of this, they were not bound by copyright law, which in turn enabled other Japanese telephone companies to make their own devices available for emoji, which led to a rapid spread in the market.
Today’s emojis are large, have more details and color, but at that time the first emoticons were monochrome and only 12x12 pixels in size. The emojis should originally go back to Shigetaka Kurita, who worked for DoCoMo in the “I-mode project” in the late 1990s.
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