Bear kaomoji

About these kaomoji

Round ʕ ʔ ears and a ᴥ snout make the bear one of the easiest kaomoji to recognise. Teddy-bear faces feel soft and friendly, so they suit hugs, apologies and sleepy good-night messages.

There are 37 bear kaomoji on this page, from the short ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ to the long ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻. A face here is 8 characters long on average.

Together they use 36 different characters from 17 Unicode blocks, most of them from Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Mathematical Operators, Phonetic Extensions. The characters you meet most often here are ʕ latin letter pharyngeal voiced fricative (31), ʔ latin letter glottal stop (30), ᴥ latin letter ain (28), • bullet point symbol (8), っ hiragana letter small tu (6).

The favourite eyes are • • (8), ´ ｀ (4), ｀ ´ (4), and the most common mouths are ᴥ (28), ᵕ (4), ω (1). 15 of the 37 faces have arms, which makes them look like they move.

33 are on the cute side, 15 are classics you will see everywhere, and 22 are short enough for a username or a game chat. Some faces fit more than one mood: 2 also in Hugs.

Tips for using them

• Tap a face to copy it, then paste it with a long press on your phone or Ctrl+V on a computer. Turn on Collect to line up several faces and copy them in one go.
• Kaomoji are text, so they take the font of the app. A face can look a little wider or narrower in WhatsApp than here; that is normal.
• If a face shows an empty box on an old phone, it uses a rare character (from Phonetic Extensions, IPA Extensions, Superscripts and Subscripts). Pick a face without it.