What does this smile mean? What do emoticons mean in WhatsApp decoding - What does an emoticon written in symbols mean?

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Not so long ago, we discussed in some detail the topic of using emoticons in social network In contact with. The main codes of Emoji emoticons were also given there (about a thousand - for all occasions). If you have not yet read that publication, I strongly recommend that you do so:

What do text emoticons made up of symbols mean?

Let's continue to study the meanings of the most common options writing certain emoticons using ordinary (non-fancy) symbols. Ready? Well, then let's go.

Initially they became widespread, i.e. lying on their side (see the above examples of laughing and sad faces). Let's see what other combinations you might encounter on the Internet and what they mean (how to decipher them).

Indication of emotions by emoticon symbols

Joy or smile 🙂 is most often depicted using the symbols: :) or :-) or =)
Uncontrollable laughter 😀 (equivalent to the expression: :-D or :D or)))) (under-smile used mainly in RuNet)
Another designation for laughter, but more like mockery 😆 (equivalent): XD or xD or >:-D (schadenfreude)
Laughter to tears, i.e. what does the “tears of joy” emoticon mean 😂: :"-) or:"-D
Insidious grin 😏: ):-> or ]:->
A sad or sorrowful emoticon 🙁 has text meanings: :-(or =(or:(
Symbolic designation of a very sad smiley 😩: :-C or:C or (((((again, a variant of the under-smiley)
Mild displeasure, confusion or puzzlement 😕: :-/ or:-\
Strong anger 😡: D-:
Text designation of the neutral attitude emoticon 😐: :-| either: -I or._. or -_-
The symbolic meaning of the admiration emoticon 😃: *O* or *_* or **
Decoding the emotion of surprise 😵: :-() either:- or: -0 or: O or O: either o_O or oO or o.O
Options for what an emoticon of great surprise or bewilderment can mean 😯: 8-O
either =-O or:-
Disappointment 😞: :-e
Fury 😠: :-E or:E or:-t
Confusion 😖: :-[ or %0
Sullenness: :-*
Sadness: :-<

Meaning of text emoticons emotional actions or gestures

What does a winking smiley mean in text-symbolic form 😉: ;-) or;)
Sad joke: ;-(
Happy joke: ;-)
Options for designating a crying emoticon 😥 or 😭: :_(or:~(or:"(or:*(
Joyful crying (means “tears of joy” emoticon 😂): :~-
Sad cry 😭: :~-(
Angry cry: :-@
Kiss in text notation 😚 or 😙 or 😗: :-* or:-()
Hugs: ()
To show your tongue (means to tease) 😛 or 😜: :-P or:-p or:-Ъ
Mouth shut (means shh) 😶: :-X
It makes me sick to my stomach (denoting nausea): :-!
Drunk or embarrassed (means either “I’m drunk” or “you’re drunk”): :*)
You are a deer: E:-) or 3:-)
You're a clown: *:O)
Heart 💓:<3
Text designation of the “rose flower” emoticon 🌹: @)->-- or @)~>~~ or @-"-,"-,---
Carnation: *->->--
Old joke (meaning button accordion): [:|||:] or [:]/\/\/\[:] or [:]|||[:]
Krezi (means “you’ve gone crazy”): /:-(or /:-]
Fifth point: (_!_)

What do horizontal (Japanese) symbolic emoticons mean?

Initially, it so happened that most of the text emoticons that were invented and became widespread had to be deciphered as if “tilting the head to the side.” However, this is not entirely convenient, you will agree. Therefore, over time, their analogues began to appear (also typed from symbols), which did not require virtually or actually tilting the head to the side, because the image created by the symbols was located horizontally.

Let's consider, what do the most common horizontal text emoticons mean?:

(joy) is usually indicated: (^_^) or (^____^) or (n_n) or (^ ^) or \(^_^)/
in symbols denoted as: (<_>) or (v_v)
The following symbols mean different things: (o_o) or (0_0) or (O_o) or (o_O) or (V_v) (unpleasant surprise) or (@_@) (meaning “You can be stunned”)
Emoticon meaning: (*_*) or (*o*) or (*O*)
I'm sick: (-_-;) or (-_-;)~
Sleeping: (- . -) Zzz. or (-_-) Zzz. or (u_u)
Confusion: ^_^" or *^_^* or (-_-") or (-_-v)
Anger and rage: (-_-#) or (-_-¤) or (-_-+) or (>__
What does fatigue mean: (>_
Jealousy: 8 (>_
Distrust: (>>) or (>_>) or (<_>
Indifference: -__- or =__=
This emoticon text expression means: (?_?) or ^o^;>
Value close to: (;_;) or (T_T) or (TT.TT) or (ToT) or Q__Q
What does winking mean: (^_~) or (^_-)
Kiss: ^)(^ either (^)...(^) or (^)(^^)
High five (means friend): =X= or (^_^)(^_^)
Carrot Love: (^3^) or (*^) 3 (*^^*)
Apology: m (._.) m
Greedy emoticon: ($_$)

Naturally, on many blogs and forums it has long been possible to add emoticons in the form of pictures (from ready-made sets), but many still continue to use text emoticons, because they have already gotten their hands on this and there is no need to find the right one in the catalog picture.

If you want to know what this or that set of characters that is a text emoticon means, write about it in the comments. Maybe the whole world will figure it out...

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The history of emoticons

Today, almost no private letter on the Internet is complete without emoticons. Some people get offended if a friend doesn't put a colon and a right parenthesis at the end of a letter. Of course, this is stupid, but emoticons are already so closely connected with our lives.

Modern children may think that emoticons have always existed, but in fact, for the first time, a smiley was drawn Harvey Bell- an artist by training. In the early sixties, America witnessed a war between insurers. The employees were afraid of getting laid off and, in order to cheer themselves and each other up, they distracted themselves and tried to communicate politely and affably with the remaining clients.

One insurance company, in order to stay afloat, decided to hold a promotion for which they needed an interesting drawing. At the end of 1963, they approached Harvey with this request. He drew the first smiley :-) , which took him ten minutes to design. For the drawing he was paid mere pennies: $43. Then he did not yet know that his simple drawing would become so popular, so he did not register any rights to it. The first Harvey emojis were pinned and given out to customers. People liked these sweet smiles so much that the company contacted the artist again and ordered ten thousand more emoticons.

Another story that played important role in the development of the emoticon, one can name the seventies, when brothers from Spain developed the slogan " Happy day!" Since that time, smileys began to be depicted on clothes. In 1971, a FrenchmanFranklin Loufraney was registered trademark smiley in eighty countries.

And the first electronic emoticons appeared in the sixties of the last century. Then emoticons were used in encoding Unicode. In 1982, Microsoft decided to create emoticons, thanks to which you can show emotions.

What do emoticons mean? decoding

Emoticons can convey almost every human emotion, from cheerful laughter to tears. Below is a table indicating what this or that smiley means.

Designation	Other designations	Decoding
		This emoji is depicted in the shape of a person's face and means a smile.


		Wild laughter
		Tenderness
		Wink
		Seriousness
		Chagrin
		Shock: in the first case pleasant, in the second not
		Laughter to tears
	:-P,=P,:b, :-b, :p	Show tongue

		Disgust

3 - this emoticon means a cute cat face or “bow lips” (cuteness). Options-:3:=3:-3

These are the most common emoticons, the designation of which many people know.

Smiley and grief emoticon

The smile and grief emoji, presented first in the table, have often changed and morphed over time. When people began to use emoticons in communication, they consisted of eyes, nose and mouth. Then the nose disappeared somewhere. And the eyes began to be drawn not with dashes, but simply with dots. Many people are familiar with when a smiley had only one eye - .) , and then he disappeared, to show a smile or sadness, people only put parentheses. To show joy or sadness, many parentheses are placed. If we are talking about strong disappointment, then it can be shown like this - ((( or so - :WITH.

What do emoticons mean on VKontakte?

On a social network VK There are two types of emoticons, the standard ones discussed above, and the voluminous ones offered by the service itself. For three years now, VKontakte users have been able to use emoticons, since only in August 2012 such an opportunity was added for communication in personal correspondence. Until this time, Vkontakte users had to independently create symbols of emotions from punctuation marks. But the developers have made their task easier: the user can open a menu of emoticons and select the one that describes his condition.

Initially, about thirty emoticons appeared on the network, but after a while another hundred were added, which depicted not only emotions, but also the actions of people, as well as food and animals. But due to the wide variety of emoticons, people’s communication is not always clear. Not all people understand the meaning of a particular smiley, or understand it differently. To prevent such situations from arising with you, you need to write a few words in addition to the smiley so that the interlocutor understands you.

Popular VKonakt emoticons the following can be mentioned:

:ok - everything is fine;
-:o - fear;
-3(- sadness;
-8) - love;
-:] - stupid smile.

There are also hidden emoticons in VK that can be sent to users by pressing a few keys. But the disadvantage of such emoticons is that they are black and therefore repel many users.

The most common commands include the following:

ALT+ 1 - white emoticon indicating a smile ☺
ALT+2 - black smile: ☻
ALT+3 - heart of love:
ALT+ 11 - male symbol: ♂
ALT+12 - female symbol: ♀
ALT+13 - melody:♪
ALT+ 15 - sun: ☼

For the symbol to appear in the message you need to:

Hold down the “Alt” key on your keyboard
Dial digital combination
Release the Alt key

What does emoticon 3 mean?

The table above showed this emoticon and said that it means tenderness. But it’s worth taking a closer look at its decoding, since not many people understand it. This symbol is associated with animals such as dogs and cats. And indeed, if you look closely, it looks like the face of an animal. In another way, this smiley stands for “ cute"- this is exactly how you can characterize any cute animal.

This emoticon should not be confused with <3 , which means heart.

Many people and smiley :3 considered a kiss, but they are mistaken because it does not mean exactly a kiss, namely cuteness.

There was a period of time when this emoticon was read from a mathematical point of view, and it meant nothing more than divide by 3. But this is a comic version that did not take root among Internet users for a long time.

Action emoticons

As mentioned above, emoticons can replace a person’s written speech and entire expressions. After all, their collection is constantly being replenished, and soon people will be able to communicate only with emoticons. Below are several emoticons that represent human actions.

	Smiley designation	Decoding


		Laugh loudly
		Listen to music on headphones
		Wave your hand
	(>^_^)(^_^<)	Hug
		Go crazy

As we can see from the table, you can even talk about your actions and desires with emoticons. Some social networks have emoticons that mean that a person is reading a book, relaxing, eating or playing ball.

We looked in detail at what emoticons mean and how they can be used to express actions and emotions. In a few years they may replace written language. After all, it is much easier for people to put an emoticon than to write for a long time and explain to the person what he is doing or what emotion he is currently showing.

Video with decoding of emoticons

Emoticons have become such a part of our lives that without them the alphabet looks incomplete, and messages seem dry and distant. But even such a frivolous and childishly simple task as arranging emojis has its own subtleties.

What do different emoticons mean?

With object emoticons, everything is simple: they mean what they represent. A ball is a ball, an alarm clock is an alarm clock, and there’s nothing to think about. But with face emoticons the task becomes more complicated. We are not always able to correctly guess emotions from the faces of living people, let alone the faces of koloboks. There are emoticons whose meaning is obvious:

Fun, laughter, joy, rejoicing.

Sadness, melancholy, melancholy, dissatisfaction.

Playful mood, teasing.

Surprise, amazement, shock, fear.

Anger, resentment, rage.

And several more similar ones - all possible options for families and romantic unions.

But among the emoticons there are also those whose meaning can be interpreted ambiguously, or even be completely confusing:

This emoticon depicts a person sobbing in three - well, in two - streams, however, in the version for Apple devices, due to raised eyebrows and a mouth that is not distorted from sobs, he is often perceived as laughing to the point of tears. Be careful with them: you want to indicate grief to them, but they will misunderstand you.

This emoticon is intended to represent silence. Instead, he just scares you to death.

If everything is more or less clear with the evil devil (“angry as hell”), then the cheerful devil is somewhat puzzling. Most likely, he is not only furious, but also looking forward to dancing on your opponent’s grave. But you, perhaps, just wanted to show originality and an unusual smiley.

Despite the fact that the three wise monkeys did not see, hear or speak anything precisely because of their wisdom, these muzzles cover their eyes, mouth and ears in shame, confusion and shock.

A set of cat emoticons for those who consider ordinary koloboks to be insufficiently expressive and want to add sweetness to their emotions.

Instead of “hello” and “bye,” you can wave your hand.

Raised hands, a gesture of joyful greeting or jubilation.

The applause is both sincere and sarcastic.

If in this picture you see hands folded in a prayer gesture, then for you the emoji may mean “thank you” or “I beg you.” Well, if you see a high-five happening here, it means you are a very cheerful person.

A raised index finger can emphasize the importance of a message or express a request to interrupt the interlocutor with a question, or it can simply indicate a previous message in the chat.

Fingers crossed for luck.

For some it’s “stop”, but for others it’s “high five!”

No, it's not a truffle. Not even a truffle at all.

Ogre and Japanese goblin. Looks like someone is missing the usual devils.

Liar. His nose grows like Pinocchio's every time he lies.

These are eyes wide with amazement, and the darting eyes of a scoundrel, and even a lustful look. If someone sends you such an emoticon in a comment to a photo, you can be sure that the photo is good.

And it's just an eye, and it's watching you.

New moon and full moon. It seems like nothing special, but these emoticons have their fans who value them for their creepy facial expressions.

A very common girl in purple. Her gestures mean OK (arms above head), “no” (arms crossed), “hello” or “I know the answer” (arm raised up). This character has another pose that confuses many - . According to the official version, it symbolizes a help desk employee. Apparently, she is showing with her hand how to get to the city library.

Do you also see two tense faces here, presumably in an unfriendly mood? But they didn’t guess: according to Apple’s hints, this is an embarrassed face and a stubborn face. Who would have thought!

By the way, you can see hints for emoticons in the message window on if you open an emoji and hover over the emoticon you are interested in. Like this:

Another way to find out the meaning of an emoticon is to turn to emojipedia.org for help. On it you will find not only detailed interpretations of emoticons, but you can also see how the same emoticon looks on different platforms. Many unexpected discoveries await you.

Where are emoticons appropriate?

1. In informal friendly correspondence

Funny yellow faces are appropriate in a personal chat, where you share not so much information as your mood. With the help of emoticons, you will laugh at a joke, sympathize, and make faces at each other. This is where emotions belong.

2. When emotions splash over the edge and there are not enough words

Sometimes, when something very important happens in our lives, we are so overwhelmed with feelings that we are about to burst. Then we write an emotional post on Facebook or post a dazzling photo on Instagram and decorate it with a generous scattering of emoticons. Some people, of course, won’t like this, but what now, stifling all the bright sensations in yourself? The main thing is not to overuse such public displays of violent emotions: this will alienate subscribers and call into question your adequacy.

3. By agreement, to highlight messages in work correspondence

This is a very simple and convenient way to make important messages that require an urgent response visible. For example, great for these purposes. But you need to agree in advance which cases are considered urgent in your company and what emoticon you will use for this.

It’s important not to overdo it: if you have one emoticon for messages about emergency situations, a second for urgent issues, a third for important news, then soon all your work correspondence will turn into a New Year’s garland that no one looks at.

When is it better to do without emoticons?

1. In business correspondence

Work is no place for emotions. Here you are required to be calm, collected and professional. Even if you want to emphasize your friendliness or express concern about a situation, use , not emoticons, for these purposes.

2. When communicating with foreigners

This is especially true for gesture emoticons. For example, the person you wanted to express approval of will put an end to your good relationship with a person from Greece or Thailand. Of course, with this gesture you sent him to hell.

Therefore, if you are not confident in your deep knowledge of the peculiarities of the national culture of your interlocutor, do not take risks.

3. Oddly enough, when you discuss feelings and emotions

Feelings are a serious matter. If you are not just chatting, but revealing your soul or sharing something important, words will convey your feelings and experiences much more accurately than emoticons. “You are dearer to me than anyone in the world” means much more than ten hearts in a row. In the end, you only have one heart, so give it away.

Remember that emojis are a seasoning, not the main ingredient. You only need a small amount to add punch to your message.

Emoji language

Judging by the fact that today almost no personal correspondence is complete without emoticons, we can safely say that emoji have become an independent section of the language. Sometimes they even pretend to replace language: you can write an entire message using only emoticons. In the popular American TV show Ellen DeGeneres there is even a special section in which guests are invited to read a phrase where some of the words are replaced with emoji:

And here the name of the film is encrypted, which we invite you to guess.

Emoticons have long been entrenched in our lives; they serve as a substitute for intonation and facial expressions in written communication. In different languages, emoticons are used differently; there are 2 emoticon dictionaries: standard and Japanese. To understand your interlocutor, you often need to know what the emoticon he used means.

Let's talk about the usual familiar emoticons, they are considered international and easy to read:

What do emoticons mean: decoding

:) or:-) or =), and also (: and (= means a smile and looks like a face. In Russian, this emoticon gradually changed and lost its eyes. First, a one-eyed version appeared.) and then only parentheses remained), which are placed in large quantities to enhance the emotional load)))) the abundance of brackets means that the person really likes what is being discussed, he is having fun and smiling.
:(or:-(or =(, and also)= and): means grief, sadness, sadness. It is also shortened in Russian to brackets(((((and they mean that the interlocutor does not like what is being said there is a conversation going on, or he is very upset. Very strong upset is sometimes indicated by the following emoticon: With the corners of his mouth drooping very much.
:.(or:,(or:`(- looks like a face with tears and means intense sadness or shows that a person is crying.
:D or XD mean laughter and intense joy, they look like a face with an open mouth, and the other with closed eyes.
Many people ask what a smiley means: 3 and =3 look like the face of an animal, a cat or a rabbit. It is used when talking about something cute, demonstrating the tenderness of the interlocutor, or when the interlocutor conveys how cute he is now.
;) this is a winking emoticon, it hints or is disingenuous.
:| or:-| This is an emoticon expressing thoughtfulness or seriousness; it is sometimes used to respond to a joke that is not funny or to designate a “poker face.”
:/ or:\ means annoyance, dissatisfaction or grief. This emoticon is usually used when talking about an unpleasant situation.
:-O or:0 or =0 or:O and other options mean surprise, this is an emoticon with a wide open mouth and he is clearly shocked by what he heard. There is also an 8-O Eyes Wide Open option.
:[ or :-[ means embarrassment and looks like a person biting his lip.
%) is a pleasant shock, “to go crazy”, but this is already an unpleasant %(, it means that the person is confused and confused.
:.) and:.D this is laughter to tears.
:P or =P or:p or:b or:-b is an emoticon sticking out its tongue, and what the interlocutor means by this, determine for yourself based on the context.
:* or:-* or =* means a kiss; if your interlocutor sent it to you, it means he mentally sent you a kiss.
:-! or:! denotes disgust or nausea.
:@ this is an angry emoticon, he screams with all his might with his mouth wide open.
:X or:x or:-X This emoji keeps its mouth shut and promises to keep the secrets secret.
Emoticons demonstrating coolness and pathos B-) dark glasses \m/ fingers folded like a goat.
R-) and this is a one-eyed pirate and 0:) an angel.
What does the smiley [:|||:] mean? It’s a button accordion, it can be drawn in different ways, but you will always recognize it. It means that your interlocutor has already listened to what you say to him, has seen the picture or video that you sent him. So the button accordion denotes old stuff.
@>-.-- and this is a rose.

So, you have learned the basic emoticons that are often used online. If you see an unfamiliar emoticon, use your imagination and quickly understand what it looks like and what the emoticon used by your interlocutor means. Good luck! ;)

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