Bunny Kaomoji ／(^ x ^)＼
Bunny kaomoji — Japanese text faces. Tap to copy.
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How to use bunny kaomoji
Bunny kaomoji are told apart by the ears, and the ears come in three shapes. They stand above the face as ／ and ＼ — the fullwidth solidus and reverse solidus — in ／(^ x ^)＼. They stick out at the sides as ᐢ ᐢ, a letter from Canadian syllabics that happens to look like a pointed ear, in ₍ᐢ..ᐢ₎, where ₍ ₎ are subscript brackets that keep the face small. Or they hang down: ૮ and ა, a Gujarati digit and a Georgian letter, droop on either side of ૮₍ ´ ꒳ `₎ა, and the two U do the same in U・x・U.
The slash bunnies are built from ordinary characters and paste anywhere. The ᐢ, ૮ and ა ones borrow from scripts an older phone may have no font for: on this page you only see what your device can draw, but the person reading your bio may get an empty box. At four to eleven characters, any of them fits a display name.
Questions
What is the ᐢ in a bunny face?
A character from Canadian Aboriginal syllabics — Unicode calls it final top half ring. Nothing in the bunny depends on its meaning; it is there because it looks like a small pointed ear. Two of them make ₍ᐢ..ᐢ₎, and on their own, ᐢ..ᐢ already reads as a rabbit peeking over something.
What is the mouth?
Most slash bunnies, and U・x・U, have an x: it draws the nose and split upper lip in one stroke, as in ／(≧ x ≦)＼, and the multiplication sign × does the same in ／(＞×＜)＼. The others vary. ₍ᐢ..ᐢ₎ has no mouth at all, just ears and two dots for eyes; the ૮ ა bunnies keep whatever mouth the face inside them has; and ／(=ω=)＼ borrows ω, the cat mouth.
Is it a bunny or a cat?
Look at the ears first. Bunny ears stand above the face as ／ ＼, stick out at the sides as ᐢ ᐢ, or hang down as ૮ ა or the U in U・x・U; cat ears are ^ ^, right next to the eyes. The mouth helps: x or × reads as a bunny and ω as a cat — but when a bunny borrows ω, as ／(=ω=)＼ does, the ears decide.
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