Greeting kaomoji

About these kaomoji

Polite bows like m(_ _)m, a salute ゞ, hands pressed together in thanks and friendly hellos. These are the kaomoji for good morning, thank you, nice to meet you and sorry for the trouble.

You get 37 greeting kaomoji here: the smallest is (-ω-)ゞ, the biggest (｡･∀･)ﾉ ｵﾊﾖｰ (about 8 characters on average).

In total these faces need 58 different characters from 13 Unicode blocks; the biggest share comes from Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Katakana, Mathematical Operators. These characters turn up again and again: _ underscore (10), ▽ hollow down-pointing triangle (8), ω small omega (kaomoji mouth) (7), ^ circumflex accent (6), ゞ hiragana voiced iteration mark (6).

Look at the eyes first: ^ ^ (6), ･ ･ (4), • • (3) lead here. The mouths that come up most are ▽ (8), ω (7), ∀ (4). 14 faces out of 37 come with arms, so they wave, hug or cheer.

You will find 16 classic faces, 16 cute ones and 22 short ones that fit anywhere. Faces shared with other moods: 2 also in Cute.

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, Greek and Coptic, Spacing Modifier Letters). Pick a face without it.