Download Free Smileys, Learn to Make Your Own

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When trying to communicate exclusively in writing, we come across the problem that we can't express subtle, non-verbal messages. To get around this problem, we can download free smileys from the internet, and also we can learn to express ourselves with special sets of characters. You can read about the classical smileys popular in Europe and the Americas in another post on this blog, but there is also a very sophisticated technique to express feelings and states, using the Japanese model of smileys.

Japanese Text Emoticons (also known as Vertical Emoticons, Kamoji, Emoji, or Japanese smileys) are somewhat different than their western counterparts. They should be read vertically as opposed to regular smileys which you read horizontally. These combinations of ASCII characters are meant to be understood in a glance. Below you can find a collection of free smileys you can learn or copy-paste whenever you want to insert them in one of your online messages. Using Japanese Text Smileys is fun because not a lot of people use them, they are surprising yet they are pretty much self explanatory.

Let's see the most interesting and most popular Japanese smileys.

Dancing \(^o\) (/o^)/

What are you looking at? (ô_ô)

Baby ~:o

We're in trouble (._.)

Fish <*)))-{

Fab, Great (^-^)b

Sick, Tired (-__-)

Crying (;_;)

Death, Corpse (X_X)

Amazed (*^*)

Feeling Dizzy (@_@)

Bored (=_=)

Ouch (>_<)

Jealous 8(>_<)8

Didn't sleep (9_9)

Of course there are hundreds more of these smileys, but if you are not convinced and like animated or more detailed and obvious smileys, download free smileys from a website, install it on your computer and smile away! :)