Kaomoji
Cute kaomoji: soft faces, blushes and tiny animals
Cute kaomoji are text faces with round eyes, tiny mouths and blushing cheeks, like (｡•ᴗ•｡) or ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ. Each one copies with a tap. They are sorted by mood below, and the notes explain which characters make a face look cute, so you can change one or build your own.
53 to copy · Updated 6 October 2026
Soft smiles · 8
Blushing and shy · 6
Excited and sparkly · 9
Hugs, waves and pats · 7
Sleepy and cosy · 6
Tiny animals · 11
Hearts and flowers · 6
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The parts that make a face cute
Cute faces follow a few habits. The eyes are round or curved shut, the mouth is tiny, there is something on the cheeks, and small hands or a sparkle sit outside the brackets. Change any one part and the mood shifts with it.
| Part | Characters | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Eyes | ◕ • ᵔ ˃ ˂ ≧ ≦ | Round eyes look wide and young; curved ones look happy and closed |
| Mouth | ᴗ ◡ ‿ ω ㅅ ▽ | A small mouth keeps the face soft; ω and ㅅ give it a cat or bunny look |
| Cheeks | ˶ 〃 ๑ ｡ * | Blush marks just outside the eyes |
| Hands | っ つ ﾉ ⊂ ٩ ۶ | Arms reaching out for a hug, a wave or a cheer |
| Extras | ✧ ☆ ♡ ✿ ﾟ | Sparkles, hearts and flowers outside the brackets |
| Ears | ʕ ʔ ᐢ ฅ ∪ | Turn the face into a bear, a bunny, a cat or a puppy |
To build your own, start with eyes and a mouth, then add cheeks, brackets and extras: •ᴗ• becomes (｡•ᴗ•｡), then (｡ᵔᴗᵔ｡) with happy closed eyes, then (｡ᵔᴗᵔ｡)✿ with a flower. Swap the ᴗ for ω and the same face turns cat-like: (｡ᵔωᵔ｡).
Where the cute characters come from
Almost none of these characters were made for faces. Kaomoji writers borrowed them from phonetics, maths and several writing systems purely for their shape, and the official names show how far some have travelled.
| Character | Its Unicode name | Its job in the face |
|---|---|---|
| ᴗ | Latin small letter bottom half o, from the phonetic extensions added in 2003 | A small, open smile |
| ˶ ˵ | Modifier letters middle double acute accent and middle double grave accent | Blush marks beside the eyes |
| ๑ | Thai digit one | A round, puffed-out cheek |
| ٩ ۶ | Arabic-Indic digit nine and extended Arabic-Indic digit six | Two arms raised in a cheer |
| ﻭ | Arabic letter waw, isolated form | A small raised fist |
| ฅ | Thai letter kho khon, which has dropped out of modern Thai spelling | A cat’s paw |
| ᗜ | Canadian syllabics carrier thu | A wide-open laughing mouth |
| ∪ | Union, from set theory | Sleepy closed eyes, or a puppy’s floppy ears |
| ө | Cyrillic small letter barred o | A bird’s beak |
Keeping a face in one piece
- Spaces inside a face are places where a line can wrap. At the end of a long line, ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ can leave one ear behind and carry the rest onto the next row. Put spaced faces after a short sentence, or on a line of their own.
- Copy the whole face. Dragging to select a kaomoji often misses a closing bracket or a stacked accent, which is why each face here copies with a single tap.
- Typed by hand, a face can be changed by the keyboard: at the start of a message, auto-capitalisation turns the first o of o(〃＾▽＾〃)o into a capital O.
Cute faces in business messages
A cute face in a reply tells a customer there is a person on the other end, and it suits light moments: a thank-you, an order on its way, a first sale, a welcome back. It works best when it matches the customer’s own tone. If they wrote with emoji and exclamation marks, a (｡•ᴗ•｡) fits; if they wrote two formal sentences, answer in kind.
- One face per message, at the end, after the words that carry the meaning.
- Leave faces out of apologies, refunds and delivery problems. (っ´ω`)ﾉ(╥ω╥) under a complaint reads as making light of it.
- Pick two or three faces that suit your brand and reuse them, so they become part of how you sound rather than a new face every time.
Tip: A screen reader may read each piece of a face aloud, and some pieces have long names: “modifier letter middle double acute accent” turns up twice in (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶). A face after the message is fine. A face instead of the message is lost on listeners.
Questions people ask
What makes a kaomoji cute rather than just happy?
Mostly the details around the smile: round or softly closed eyes, a tiny mouth such as ᴗ or ω, blush marks on the cheeks and small hands or sparkles. (^_^) is happy; (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) is happy and cute, because of the closed eyes and rosy cheeks.
Is uwu a kaomoji?
It works like one. In uwu the two u’s are closed, smiling eyes and the w is a small mouth, read upright like a Japanese face. owo is the surprised version. Both belong to playful, cutesy online talk, so outside it they can read as teasing or over the top.
What are the marks on the cheeks, like ˶ or 〃?
Blush marks. ˶ is a phonetic modifier letter and 〃 is the ditto mark used in Japanese and Chinese, the sign for “same as above.” Beside a pair of eyes, both look like pink cheeks, which is why (〃ω〃) reads as embarrassed.
Why does ʕ ᵔᴥᵔ ʔ break across two lines?
It has spaces inside it, and apps wrap long lines at spaces. If the bear lands at the end of a full line, part of it moves to the next row. Start a new line before the face, or pick a version without spaces, such as ʕ￫ᴥ￩ʔ.
Are cute kaomoji okay in replies to customers?
Yes, in small doses and in light moments: thanks, order updates, a welcome. Keep them out of apologies and complaints, and let the words carry the message so the face only sets the tone.
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