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å—, kaomoji, emoticons do you often use in mail sent from your personal computer?
Rank Emoticon Score Meaning 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 (^^ã‚ž 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 (*^â–½^*) 15.0 Joyful 14 ＿|ï¿£|â—‹, orz, OTL, etc 13.7 Depressed 15 (＾▽＾) 11.1 Laughing 16 ã‚ã‚¿â”â”â”(゜∀゜)â”â”â”!!!!!, (゜∀゜), etc 11.1 I’m here!!! 17 (´･ω･`) 10.3 Snubbed 18 （　ﾟ Дﾟ） 8.8 Shocked 19 （・∀・） 7.7 Laughing 20 (Ｔ▽Ｔ) 7.1 Crying 21 (*ï¿£mï¿£) 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
13 Comments
Japanese words · March 1, 2009 at 12:19
I just never could get into these types of emoticons and prefer the pictured ones instead.
Sami · April 7, 2009 at 11:58
number 16 means, to put it bluntly…
“I came”
Jake · April 15, 2009 at 03:33
Funny how something I remember using in the early 90s on the east coast of America is now considered Japanese
Jamie · May 31, 2009 at 08:37
“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.
Randomdude · June 6, 2009 at 08:54
ã‚ã‚¿â”â”â”(゜∀゜)â”â”â”!!!!! <—– 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
Japguy · June 21, 2009 at 21:05
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:]
paul smith · June 25, 2009 at 17:22
Very interesting article. Thanks for putting it
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