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  2. Shrug - Wikipedia

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    The shrug gesture is a Unicode emoji included as U+1F937 路 SHRUG. [12] The shrug emoticon , better known as the shruggie , made from Unicode characters , is also typed as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , where "ツ" is the character tsu from Japanese katakana .

  3. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.

  4. Kaomoji - Wikipedia

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    A Kaomoji painting in Japan. Kaomoji was invented in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using text characters in Japan. It was independent of the emoticon movement started by Scott Fahlman in the United States in the same decade. Kaomojis are most commonly used as emoticons or emojis in Japan .

  5. Tsu (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Tsu ( hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [t͡sɯᵝ] ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu . The small kana っ/ッ, known ...

  6. Emoticon - Wikipedia

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    A smiley-face emoticon Examples of kaomoji smileys. An emoticon (/ ə ˈ m oʊ t ə k ɒ n /, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely / ɪ ˈ m ɒ t ɪ k ɒ n /, ih-MOTT-ih-kon), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.

  7. Shift_JIS art - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese movie and television show, Densha Otoko (電車男), frequently included Shift_JIS art, both during screen transitions and within the story itself. One of the recurring characters in the TV series was a Shift_JIS artist who would often draw full-screen Shift_JIS works of art as a way of expressing his support and encouraging the ...

  8. Shigetaka Kurita - Wikipedia

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    Shigetaka Kurita (栗田 穣崇, born May 9, 1972, Gifu Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese interface designer often cited for his early work with emoji sets. Many refer to him as the creator of the emoji, a claim that has been clarified in recent years.

  9. Thumb signal - Wikipedia

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    Thumb signal. A thumb signal, usually described as a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, is a common hand gesture achieved by a closed fist held with the thumb extended upward or downward, respectively. The thumbs-up gesture is associated with positivity, approval, achievement, satisfaction and solidarity, while the thumbs-down gesture is associated with ...