In short, kaomoji is a Japanese version of the familiar emoticons. The principal difference is that kaomoji does not need to be turned over to recognize emotions. Moreover, they can express not only facial expressions or gestures, but also complex actions, and even whole stories. Of course, the eastern emoticons are using the theme of anime and manga. And for their writing, Japanese hieroglyphs are mixed with punctuation marks and various symbols.
Where to find Kaomoji
A simple search for the word “kaomoji” will produce an unbelievable mountain of results. A similar situation with the query for kaomoji. Hundreds of thematic sites are full of thousands of all kinds of faces, the meaning of which is often impossible to determine. Therefore, beginners are strongly advised to get acquainted with the general spirit of kaomoji, by scanning the most common of them. And help you in this kaomoji.ru – Russian-language site with Japanese emoticons.
Here kaomoji are broken down into categories, for example, you can easily find cheerful emoticons, emoticons-hide-and-seek, as well as pigs, weapons or love. Moreover, each of the categories describes the principles of the Kaomoji structure. For example, kaomoji friendships often use symbols that are similar to hands and their touches (人, メ, 八, 爻). After reading this basis, you will find it much easier to navigate among all these scribbles, and they (not without the help of imagination) will acquire images with meaning.
kaomoji.ru
If you are proficient in basic English, you can also look at foreign pages. For example, dongerlist.com has good content, nice appearance and good structure.
The advantage of the site is the ability to copy a smiley clip into the clipboard in one click, and then paste it into the correspondence.
dongerlist.com
How quickly to use kaomoji
Ready kill the relationship (▰˘◡˘▰) surprise with the originality of their virtual interlocutors? Excellent! Except for one thing: dialing complex emoticon – so-so pleasure. Let’s figure out how to make your life easier when writing kaomoji.
Chrome
Do not think, Chrome does not have a native little-known possibility or experimental function that would simplify the kawaii-structure. But third-party developers took care of the needs of the people and wrote a couple of amusing extensions.
For example, one of the resources already mentioned suggests adding a floating window to the browser with quick access to kaomoji. There is a division by category and the ability to quickly insert an emoticon into the window of correspondence with a single click of the mouse.
A slightly different approach was realized by the owners of the site disapprovallook.com, the next bank of emoticons. Their extension quickly redirects the user to the resource itself, where it is possible to get hold of the face with a conventional copy-paste. Why all this, if there are bookmarks? So it’s somewhat easier, because you do not need to keep the bookmarks bar or open a new page before your eyes.
Android
Who would doubt that on Google Play there are toolboxes for fans of emoticons. It’s hard to say which of the keyboards is the best, but we will offer Emoticon Keyboard as an example. She has a lot of downloads, a good rating and mostly positive reviews.
By and large this is the most common keyboard, but with the addition of a button that calls the menu for choosing an emoticon.
However, you hardly want to change the keyboard that has already taken root. In this situation, we advise you: take a look at the settings of your regular keyboard and find there something like a custom dictionary. Here you have to work hard once and ask for a replacement of certain words on kaomoji. The work is not from quick and pleasant, but forever.
iOS
The autumn blessing of Tim Cook in 2014 unleashed the hands of iOS developers who want to create their ideal keyboard for the iPhone and iPad. As a result, iTunes was filled with a number of interesting solutions, among which, undoubtedly, there were kaomodzi keyboards.
Kaomoji Keyboard boasts thousands of emoticons, such a proposal will satisfy any demand.
Mac OS and Windows
As for the Mac, then in the settings of the desktop OSes from Apple provides for the replacement of the word or phrase for the option you have specified, that is, in our case – the emoticon. It’s a pity that something similar does not exist in Windows, so you have to install and use extra software. For example, the AutoCorrect templates are implemented in the popular Punto Switcher.
Conclusion
We hope that you are pleased to meet the unusual world of Kaomoji, but promise that you will not abuse them both in your personal correspondence and in the comments of the Lifehacker!
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