Top thirty Japanese emoticons （＾o＾）
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In the middle of June, goo Ranking surveyed its readers by means of a public internet questionnaire on what emoticons, or smilies, they often used in mail from their personal computers. The following table presents the top thirty emoticons list. As usual for goo Ranking, number one slot gets ranked with 100 points, and all the rest with the proportion of votes relative to the top vote. More detailed demographics, etc, are not available.
Back in April, I translated another survey on the use of smilies, or emoticons, on Japanese mobile phones, that you may want to reference. Even though the people responding to this survey are (supposed to be!) adult, emoticons reveal a cute childish playfulness, I feel.
Please feel free to use these in your email or messenger applications to add some japanese emotions to your chat!
Ranking results
Q: What 顔文字, kaomoji, emoticons do you often use in mail sent from your personal computer?
Rank Emoticon Score Emotion 1 （＾_＾） or （＾_＾）v, etc 100 Laughing 2 (>_<)> 66.4 Troubled 3 (^_^;) 54.4 Troubled 4 (ToT) 53.3 Crying 5 m(_ _)m 52.9 Apologising 6 (^^ゞ or (^^;) 38.3 Shy 7 （￣ー￣） 20.6 Grinning 8 (≧∇≦)/ 18.9 Joyful 9 （￣□￣；） 18.9 Surprised 10 (#^.^#) 18.8 Shy 11 （*´▽｀*） 16.1 Infatuation 12 (ーー;) 15.4 Worried 13 (*^▽^*) 15.0 Joyful 14 ＿|￣|○, orz, OTL, etc 13.7 Depressed 15 (＾▽＾) 11.1 Laughing 16 キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!, (゜∀゜), etc 11.1 I think it is “I’m here!!!”, but I just don’t really know! 17 (´･ω･`) 10.3 Snubbed 18 （ ﾟ Дﾟ） 8.8 Shocked 19 （・∀・） 7.7 Laughing 20 (Ｔ▽Ｔ) 7.1 Crying 21 (*￣m￣) 6.8 Dissatisfied 22 （ ´∀｀） 6.0 Laughing 23 （⌒▽⌒） 5.3 Laughing 24 （＾ｖ＾） 4.9 Laughing 25 ヽ（´ー｀）┌ 4.7 Mellow 26 （’-’*) 4.1 Laughing 27 (‘A`) 3.8 Snubbed 28 （゜◇゜） 2.1 Surprised 29 (*°∀°)=3 2.1 Infatuation 30 ∩( ・ω・)∩, ( ・ω・), etc 1.3 Joyful
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I just never could get into these types of emoticons and prefer the pictured ones instead.
number 16 means, to put it bluntly…
“I came”
Funny how something I remember using in the early 90s on the east coast of America is now considered Japanese
“kita” just means “I came”, “You came”, “It came”, “They came”, etc. It doesn’t have to be a sexual meaning. Say you were waiting for something in the mail and you got it. You’re excited so you would type “kitaaaa” It could refer to many things based on the conversation.
キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!! <—– this has more of a meaning like “Here comes the part!” like a certain thing a character does that you know is coming up
ktkr is same thing too, “kitakore” is literally “This has come!” although I’ve never seen kita with sexual meanings before, mostly see on Nico Nico
Hi.
Thanks for sharing those, very nice:]
I just have one question, how to modify my web page code( simple html mostly) for those to work? do I have to add some kind of library or what? Please help, thanks in advance:]
Very interesting article. Thanks for putting it