Animal Kaomoji (=^・^=)
Animal kaomoji — Japanese text faces. Tap to copy.
Tip · press and hold to pick several at once
How to use animal kaomoji
Animal kaomoji are built from a face plus ears, and the ears are what name the animal: (=^･ω･^=) has the cat's pointed ears drawn with ^ ^, while ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ is a bear — the ʕ ʔ are rounded bear ears and ᴥ is the snout. Change nothing but those two marks and the same face becomes a different animal.
The mouth does the rest of the work. ω is the standard cat mouth, ᴥ belongs to bears and dogs, and ᴗ or ‿ turns any of them into a smile. Because every part is an ordinary character, the whole thing pastes into a bio, a display name or a Discord nickname without becoming a picture.
Questions
What makes it a cat rather than a bear?
The ears and the mouth. Cats get pointed ears written as ^ ^ and the ω mouth: (=^･ω･^=). Bears get the rounded ʕ ʔ brackets as ears and ᴥ as a snout: ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ. Everything else — eyes, whiskers, paws — is decoration on top.
What are the = signs on either side?
Whiskers. In (=^･ω･^=) the two = marks stand in for the whiskers spreading out from the face, which is why they sit outside the ears rather than inside the face.
Do these fit in a display name?
In a display name, the short ones do: ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ is five characters and fits almost anywhere, while the longest face on this page runs to twelve. The @handle takes none of them, and neither do Roblox names. Bios are more forgiving — TikTok gives you eighty.
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