The smiley faces called Smileys represent the human face and all its possible expressions that correspond to different moods. These smilies have been used for decades, since the shirts with the yellow and round smile that came out but came out since the advent of the internet that their use has become massive to express their feelings in chat in a synthetic and clear way.
On web chats, therefore , smilies are the main means of transmitting an emotion virtually .
Especially among the younger ones, those who write very fast and who have a thousand contacts in chats, emoticons have become vital and have been invented to transmit not only any type of mood but also practical actions such as going somewhere or doing something .
Emoticons have become one of the main success factors of MSN Messenger, the most popular and used instant chat in the world.
Messenger emoticons are drawn graphically and in other articles we have seen how to create animated emoticons and avatars to use on Messenger and where to download new emoticons to chat.
In this very frivolous post instead we see a list of the main emoticons to be written with the keyboard, so as to provide a guide to those who chat so that they can always correctly interpret the meaning of the codes used to make a Smiley.
Western Emoticons are those written from right to left and the most popular are:
1) Smile
:-) Or: -] o: 3 o:> which are synonymous with happiness and favor.
2) Great joy
:-D expresses the feeling of victory or great contentment.
3) Sadness
:–( represents the state of disappointment while: -c is great sadness.
4) Wink
;-) or, -) or * -) indicate a joke or are used after making a double sense.
5) Tab
:-P or: -po: -b are emoticons for making fun of often used after saying bullshit.
6) Mouth open
: -O or :–() are the acronym for surprise or shock.
7) Crooked mouth
: - / is the skepticism face or if you are annoyed or uncomfortable.
8) Kiss lips
: -X or: - * or: - are used when you want to send a kiss to express love or affection or to try shamelessly.
Alternatively, you can also do: Or :-) ~~ (-: or :-) ~~~~ who do the French kiss, where you will notice the twisted tongue.
9) Sealed lips
: -X or: - # are about to transmit embarrassment; strange that the symbol is similar to the kiss so the first is to be used and interpreted carefully.
10) Innocence
0 :-) used as a joke it can mean being angels or good guys.
11) Tear
: '- (More than sadness is just to say that we cry from despair
12) Horns
> :-) O>: - D is used to express evil or devil-like malice.
13) Neutral
: - | Expresses boredom, but may also be going to be speechless.
14) Spit
: -p ~~ represents the action of drooling or spitting the interlocutor in chat.
15) Look
>.> or <._> or <_ <are ways of looking at each other and lead us to oriental emoticons. The Eastern Smilies should not be interpreted by reading them from left to right but as if they were a graphic object in their own right.
1) Smile for happiness
(^_^) o (^. ^)
2) Open your mouth to laugh or sing
(^ O ^)
3) To joke
(`_ ^) or (^ _ ~)
4) Close your eyes with sadness or sighing
(-_-)
5) Lower your head for bitterness and disappointment
(._.) OR (, _, )
6) Drop of sweat nervousness or embarrassment like cartoons
(^ _ ^ ')
7) Big eyes of wonder ("seriously">
0.oo O_o
8) A nice printed kiss
(^ x ^) or (^ 3 ^)
9) Blush with embarrassment
^ /// ^ o> /// <oo /// O 10) Eyes wide for a tragic news
(X_x)
11) Tears of sadness and tears
(; _;) or (T_T)
12) Distort eyes for pain, failure or frustration
(> _. <) 13) Close your eyes and zzz to sleep
(-_-) zzZ or -_- zzZ
14) Headphones for listening to music
d ^ _ ^ bo d -_- b
15) Distort your eyes in annoyance
(> _>)
In addition to these there are many smilies that can still be done with the keyboard and many emoticons for any emotion or job or action that is being done.
To have an even more complete list of emoticons you can go to some sites like this and this one where there are many western type facets and also many representing famous people and faces designed to be used on MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger.
Finally, it must be said that most chat clients automatically convert smiley codes made with the keyboard into graphic faces.
See also how to insert emoticons and smileys on Facebook chat .
If you want to avoid this automatic and graphic conversion you have to type the characters in reverse order, for example (-: instead of :-).
Without making smileys, special symbols can only be written using the computer keyboard.
What else to say, if in the comments you want to show me some of the other smileys you use, this is the right place!
