Generators

Kaomoji list & generator

Browse, search, copy, and build Japanese emoticons from parts

Kaomoji toolkit

Search by name, keyword, or kaomoji

Joy & laughter30

Selected

(^_^)

smiling

Joy & laughter5 chars

Kaomoji are ordinary character sequences. Use an escaped output when the raw text does not survive transport.

Text

(^_^)

Unicode

U+0028 U+005E U+005F U+005E U+0029

HTML entities

(^_^)

JS / JSON escape

(^_^)

How to use / Notes

Use Browse & search to find kaomoji by name, keyword, or the characters themselves; hiragana, katakana, and half-width kana all match the same entries.
Click a tile to copy that kaomoji straight to the clipboard.
The side panel also shows the selected kaomoji as Unicode code points, HTML entities, and a JS/JSON escape.
Use the JS / JSON escape output when embedding a kaomoji in source that has to stay ASCII.
Switch to Parts builder to assemble your own from eyes, mouth, outline, arms, and decoration, or hit randomise for a starting point.

Unlike emoji, kaomoji are ordinary character sequences, so a font with uneven widths can distort them.
Kaomoji containing half-width katakana or rare symbols may not survive legacy encodings such as Shift_JIS.
Art drawn for a monospace font changes shape when rendered with a proportional one.