After following a couple of Japanese people on Twitter I noticed that they used some pretty interesting emoticons in their tweets. Japanese emoticons are known as kaomoji which is a combination of the Japanese word for face "kao" and the Japanese word for emoticon "emoji".

Japanese emoticons are read vertically and use a ton of 2-bit characters most Westerners never type. This results in a huge variety of very awesome and cute looking emoticons.

There's no way I can collect and display on this site, all the kaomoji that exist because there's a huge amount of them. Plus I think a lot of them look stupid. Therefore I've assembled the best ones I can find here for you to easily copy and paste wherever you want. You can even combine elements of them to form your own emoticons!

I've also cut out the Japanese words that often appear beside many of these emoticons since a lot of people can't read Japanese and I don't think those words add anything to the emoticons.

So enjoy these emoticons and feel free to copy and paste them wherever you want.