Click any face or bracket to copy it. This page collects the parts kaomoji are built from, plus complete faces you can paste as they are.
▦ 57 symbols⧉ One-click copyU Plain Unicode
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57 symbols
(˶ᵔ
ᵕ
ᵔ˶)
(๑>◡<๑)
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
(｡♥‿♥｡)
(◕ᴗ◕✿)
(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ
٩(◕‿◕)۶
(｡•́‿•̀｡)
(˘ω˘)
(⁀ᗢ⁀)
(ᵔᴥᵔ)
ʕ
ᵔᴥᵔ
ʔ
₍ᐢ.
̫.ᐢ₎
ᓚᘏᗢ
/ᐠ
-
˕
-マ
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
ᵔ
ᴗ
◡
‿
﹏
ω
ᴥ
˕
ᗜ
ヮ
ᵕ
³
ε
˘
⌣
ㅅ
ᯅ
꒰
꒱
໒
১
ᐢ
ᐡ
୨
୧
⑅
࿔
ʚ
ɞ
ᨒ
ᥲ
ᰔ
ෆ
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Kaomoji sets and cute lines
Faces grouped by mood, plus soft framing you can wrap around a word. Each is complete and ready to paste.
24 combinations
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How to use cute symbols
Take a complete face first and see how it sits in the app you are targeting, because rendering varies more here than anywhere else on this site. Once a face works, the parts become useful: swap the eyes to change the mood while keeping the frame, so (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) turns sleepy with ˘ and surprised with ᯅ. Paws and soft brackets go around a word rather than a face, which is where ꒰ hello ꒱ and ໒ name ১ come from. Two practical cautions. Combining marks stack onto the character before them, so deleting a face often takes several presses of backspace. And a face made of eight code points still counts as eight characters against a bio limit, which is why the shorter ones survive on platforms with tight caps.
◍
Discord and Telegram display names
Both allow long Unicode names, which makes them the friendliest home for a full face. ᓚᘏᗢ next to a nickname reads as personality rather than clutter.
✎
Signing off a message
A face at the end of a line does what a tone indicator does, only faster. (｡•́‿•̀｡) softens a correction, (˘ω˘) closes a goodnight.
♡
Reaction replies
Where a platform has no reaction button, a pasted face answers without demanding an answer back. ٩(◕‿◕)۶ carries enthusiasm no emoji quite matches.
◈
Art and shop branding
Small creators use a consistent face as a signature across listings, stickers, and packing notes. It behaves like a logo that costs nothing to reproduce.
✦
Bracket framing around a word
The paw and bracket forms wrap text rather than making a face: ꒰ open ꒱ or ໒ back soon ১ in a status line.
☰
Compatibility notes
Most symbols here work everywhere, but rare or decorative characters may not render on older devices and apps with limited fonts. Test a symbol on mobile before using it in a permanent username.
Frequently asked questions
Why do kaomoji use Japanese and Cherokee characters?
Because the shapes happened to fit. ᴥ comes from the phonetic extensions block and became a snout. ᐢ is Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and became an ear. ʕ and ʔ are glottal stops from the IPA extensions. None were designed for this. Kaomoji culture grew out of Japanese message boards in the 1980s, where a double-byte character set made wide expressive faces practical long before emoji existed.
Why does deleting a face take so many backspaces?
Several parts are combining marks, which attach to the character before them rather than occupying their own position. The cursor treats each as a separate step even though they look like one glyph. Selecting the whole face and deleting the selection is faster and avoids leaving an orphaned mark behind.
Will a face fit in an Instagram or TikTok bio?
Usually yes, but count the characters rather than the glyphs. Instagram allows 150 characters and TikTok 80, and a face like (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ spends around a dozen of them. On TikTok that is a meaningful share of the budget, so shorter forms such as ᓚᘏᗢ or ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ leave more room for words.