Facce Kaomoji giapponesi da copiare e incollare

Cos'è il kaomoji?

Kaomoji (顔文字) — literally "face characters" in Japanese — are emoticons built from Unicode letters, punctuation, brackets and diacritics. Unlike the colourful bitmap emojis on your phone keyboard, a kaomoji is just plain text: the entire face exists between the opening and closing bracket, and every pair of eyes, mouth, blush mark or sweat drop is a real character anyone can copy, paste or type. That is why kaomoji feel so legible across every chat app, forum, game, code comment and terminal — the medium does not need emoji fonts or colour.

Classic Western ASCII emoticons (like :-) or ;-) ) are read sideways; kaomoji are read upright. A face such as (ᵔ◡ᵔ) already shows two eyes and a smile without rotating your head, which is why they spread so quickly from Japanese bulletin boards into chat rooms, Twitter, Discord and Twitch.

Una breve storia del kaomoji

Il primo kaomoji ampiamente riconosciuto è (^_^), attributed to a 1986 post by Yasushi Wakabayashi on the Japanese bulletin board ASCII NET. Western users at the same time were happily typing :) sideways — but Japanese keyboards, and Japanese multi-byte encodings like Shift-JIS, gave users an enormous palette of full-width brackets, kana and symbols. Over the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japanese forum culture (2channel and its descendants especially) turned this palette into a folk art: thousands of face variations, each with a subtly different emotion.

Alla fine degli anni '90, il flip della tavola (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ e il gesto dello scroll ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ had crossed into English-language internet culture. The shrug in particular became so iconic that it was featured as a reaction on Slack, Discord, macOS text replacement and countless meme templates. Today kaomoji coexist with Unicode emojis, but they fill a different niche — ironic, text-first, sometimes ASCII-pure, sometimes absurdly elaborate.

Kaomoji vs emoji vs emoticon

• Emoticon — una faccia di lato fatta con alcuni segni di punteggiatura ASCII: :-), ;-P, :<.
• Kaomoji — un volto testuale verticale con caratteri in stile giapponese: (｡◕‿◕｡), (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻.
• Emoji — a picture character encoded in Unicode, rendered as a colour glyph by the operating system: 😀 🎉 🌸.

All three are "pictographic communication", but only emoji require an emoji-aware font. Kaomoji work everywhere text works — including places emoji notoriously break, like terminals, old web forms, LaTeX documents, git commit messages and monospaced code editors.

Come vengono costruiti i kaomoji

La maggior parte dei kaomoji segue uno schema semplice: [left bracket][left cheek/hand][left eye][mouth][right eye][right cheek/hand][right bracket]. Swapping a single component changes the emotion dramatically — the same brackets plus different eyes gives you happy, crying, angry, sleepy or confused. That modularity is exactly why there are so many variations, and why kaomoji lend themselves to being browsed by mood, action or character type.

Blocchi di costruzione comuni

• Occhi: ◕ ◕, •́ •̀, ╥ ╥, ◉ ◉, ಠ ಠ, ⌒ ⌒, T T, > <
• Bocche: ‿, ω, □, 皿, ▽, 益, 〰
• Guance / rossori: ｡, ⁎, ✿, *
• Mani / braccia: ヽ, ノ, ╯, ╰, ╭, ʕ, ʔ
• Lacrime / sudore / effetti: ;, T_T, ˃̣̣̥, つ, ~~, ♡, ★

Once you know these parts, you can read any kaomoji at a glance and even remix your own. That is the real reward of browsing a kaomoji library: you stop copying and start composing.

Perché le persone usano ancora i kaomoji nel 2026

• Affidabilità multipiattaforma — kaomoji render identically on any device with a basic Unicode font, from ancient IRC clients to modern Slack. No missing-glyph box, no platform-specific yellow face.
• Tono e ironia — a shrug or a flipped table carries a specific kind of deadpan humour that a full-colour emoji cannot match. Kaomoji are theatrical without being flashy.
• Gamma espressiva — there are literally thousands of kaomoji for micro-emotions no single emoji covers: sleepy-but-content, politely panicking, happily nosebleeding, smug bear peeking from a bush, magical-girl-transformation excitement.
• Accessibilità — screen readers read each Unicode code point, which means a kaomoji is announced character by character — sometimes lovingly, sometimes hilariously. Emoji are usually announced by one pre-defined name.
• Identità della community — kaomoji are a badge of a specific online culture (imageboards, speedrun chats, programmer forums, anime fandom, vtuber chats). Using one is a small cultural handshake.

Come usare i kaomoji — guida rapida

1. Click any kaomoji on this site to copy it to your clipboard — no sign-up, no app.
2. Paste it anywhere that accepts text: Slack, Discord, Twitter/X, Instagram captions, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, email, Notion, Figma, Obsidian, a Twitch chat, a commit message, even a <code>&lt;title&gt;</code> tag.
3. On mobile, long-press the copied text to paste — some apps need a second tap to flatten formatting.
4. In macOS, add your favourites to System Settings → Keyboard → Text Replacements (e.g. "shr" → ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). Windows users can use PowerToys Keyboard Manager or AutoHotKey.
5. Avoid double-escaping: if a chat app converts smart quotes or backslashes, the kaomoji can break. Pasting into a code fence (wrap with `backticks`) usually preserves it.

Categorie di kaomoji su questo sito

We group 962 kaomoji into six top-level families so you can find the right face fast:

• Positive Kaomoji — gioia kaomoji, amore kaomoji, imbarazzo kaomoji, simpatia kaomoji, ridere kaomoji, arrossire kaomoji, baciando kaomoji — smiles, blushes, hearts, bows.
• Negative Kaomoji — rabbia kaomoji, tristezza kaomoji, dolore kaomoji, paura kaomoji, insoddisfazione kaomoji, piangendo kaomoji, infastidito kaomoji — tears, rage lines, defensive hands.
• Neutral Kaomoji — indifferenza kaomoji, confusione kaomoji, dubbio kaomoji, [ kaomoji, pensando kaomoji — flat mouths, ???, side-eye, raised brows.
• Actions Kaomoji — saluto kaomoji, abbraccio kaomoji, occhiolino kaomoji, chiedendo scusa kaomoji, scrittura kaomoji, in esecuzione kaomoji, dormendo kaomoji, epistassi kaomoji, nascondendo kaomoji, sospira kaomoji, table flip kaomoji, facepalm kaomoji — kaomoji that actually do something.
• Animals Kaomoji — orso kaomoji, gatto kaomoji, cane kaomoji, coniglio kaomoji, maiale kaomoji, uccello kaomoji, ragno kaomoji, pesce kaomoji, hamster kaomoji, foca kaomoji, serpente kaomoji, farfalla kaomoji, pipistrello kaomoji — the ASCII menagerie.
• Altre Kaomoji — amici kaomoji, nemici kaomoji, magia kaomoji, cibo kaomoji, musica kaomoji, giochi kaomoji, facce kaomoji, speciale kaomoji, scintille kaomoji, stelle kaomoji, cuori & simboli kaomoji, fiori kaomoji, meteo kaomoji — special characters that do not fit the other boxes.

Every kaomoji has its own page with copy-paste, a description, related keywords, and a grid of similar kaomoji from the same group, so discovery keeps going.

Kaomoji famosi che probabilmente già conosci

• ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ — the shrug. A 2010s icon; Slack auto-suggests it; popularised by Kanye West and then by literally everyone.
• (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ — the table flip. One of the most animated kaomoji ever made — peak 2channel energy.
• ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ — l'orso. Il mascotte degli sviluppatori Go-lang e l'estetica Tsum Tsum.
• (｡◕‿◕｡) — il classico sorriso scintillante. Perfetto per messaggi di "grazie!" e "evviva!".il classico sorriso scintillante. Perfetto per messaggi di "grazie!" e "evviva!". il sorriso scintillante classico. Perfetto per messaggi di "grazie!" e "evviva!".
• (ಠ_ಠ) — "espressione di disapprovazione". Il Lenny della cultura degli image macro degli anni 2010."espressione di disapprovazione". Il Lenny della cultura degli image-macro degli anni 2010. 'look of disapproval'. La versione Lenny della cultura degli image macro degli anni 2010.
• ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) — Lenny Face. Not strictly Japanese-origin, but adopted into the kaomoji family. Use sparingly.
• (*/ω＼*) — volto imbarazzato / nascosto. In stile anime.

Kaomoji su diverse piattaforme

Kaomoji are just Unicode text, so they work everywhere plain text works. A few platform notes:

• Slack / Discord — kaomoji paste fine. Discord strips some diacritics in code blocks; use inline instead. Slack has a built-in shrug command: /shrug your message.
• Twitter / X — full support including combining diacritics. Long kaomoji with many combining marks still count as only a few characters, which is useful for the 280-character limit.
• iOS / macOS — native text replacement lets you type a short code and have it expanded into your favourite kaomoji.
• Windows — Windows 10+ has a built-in kaomoji keyboard at Win + . (period). It ships hundreds of kaomoji out of the box.
• Android — Gboard has a dedicated ASCII tab; Samsung Keyboard exposes kaomoji under the emoji menu.
• Terminals / CLI — any terminal with a font that supports basic katakana and extended Latin will render most kaomoji. Some extremely elaborate kaomoji with stacked combining marks may render raggedly in monospaced fonts.

Cultura, comunità e lore dei kaomoji

Kaomoji are a living part of internet folk culture. On the Japanese side: 2channel's ASCII-art boards, Nico Nico Douga comment streams, and the enormous kaomoji dictionaries hosted on personal homepages in the late 2000s. On the Western side: early LiveJournal + DeviantArt communities, the 2010s Tumblr cutesy era, MMO guild chats where kaomoji served as quick emotional reactions, and more recently the vtuber scene, where kaomoji pair naturally with the anime-coded communication style.

Interestingly, some kaomoji have travelled in the other direction: the shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ was popularised in English and is now often found in Japanese chat too. Kaomoji are a two-way bridge between cultures.

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