Korean emoticons are different than the ones we use in the west. Normally, to describe happiness or a smile, we would use :-), or the shortened form :). In Korea, however, they use eyes to show emotions, so happiness becomes ^^. For the life of me I had no idea what this meant and in text messages with my coteachers I just thought they kept hitting the ^ key by mistake.
Other Korean (and I assume Asian) emoticons:
(^_^) = smile
(^o^) = laughing out loud
d(^_^)b = thumbs up (not ears)
(T_T) = sad (it's a crying face)
(-.-)Zzz = sleeping
(Z.Z) = sleepy person
\(^_^)/ = cheers, hurrah
(*^^*) = shyness
(-_-); = sweating (as in ashamed)
(^_^);; = sorry! my mistake
(?_?) = nonsense, i don't know
(^_~) = wink
(o.O) = surprise
v(^_^)v = victory
(>^_^)> = hugging
(>^_^)> <(^_^<) = hugging each other (^o^)
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2 comments:
Wow, those are very interesting (and cute!) -- I may even start using some of those.
man ive been seeing those for years. well i never use them, but i knew about some of them. the thumbs up one is super cool though
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