Greetings, friends. Today's post will be not only useful, but also funny - we will talk about emoticons for social network VKontakte. Funny faces and funny pictures have already become an integral part of any communication on the Internet, and everyone wants to diversify their texts with new and original ones.
The legs of all emojis grow out of text symbols, when it was first invented to indicate emotions using symbols. For me, the first emoticon was the smile symbol, presented in the form of a closing bracket “)”; the expanded version of the smile symbol additionally has a colon “:)” - this spelling is familiar to everyone, almost everyone online services automatically transform this code into a cheerful smiling face, but it turns out that this is not according to the Feng Shui GOST Unicode standard.
Unicode is a standard where all letters, numbers, icons and other printable elements are represented as a unique digital code. This code is understood by any device and displays any symbol correctly. With Unicode, you can include any icon in your text, even if it's not on your keyboard. For example, if you want to write the hieroglyph “乔”, enter its code “𠁒” and you’re done.
The widespread use of emoticons has led to many of their codes being included in Unicode, along with other symbols and signs.
Of course, social networks have become active consumers of emoticons on an industrial scale, VKontakte is no exception. For the convenience of users, so that people do not have to remember and manually write codes to display certain pictures, Contact uses a tooltip - a special drop-down list where you can visually select the desired emoticon and insert it into a message or post on the wall. But this list does not contain all the emoticon codes supported by VK, only the most popular ones (otherwise the list would be too cumbersome).
The rest of the emoticons are, as it were, hidden, but they can be easily used if you know the designation code in Unicode. In addition to dialogues and walls, hidden emoticon codes can also be used in statuses; we will discuss how to make statuses in VK using emoticons below.
I would like to cover the topic of emoji in as much detail as possible, but if this description tires you and you yourself know how to insert everything and you just need to get the necessary codes, go straight to. And for the curious, we will delve a little deeper into history and others interesting points.
What emoticons work in VK and what is special about Emoji
Briefly about main reason I mentioned the appearance of emoticons at the beginning of the post - this is the need to convey emotions that are difficult or take a long time to describe in words. As soon as the Internet ceased to be a purely business tool and moved into the category of entertainment, the need to express smiles, sadness and much more began to go off scale. It is very difficult to convey what makes communication alive and humane (facial expressions, gestures) through text; not every writer copes with this task perfectly, let alone ordinary people flirting via ICQ.
For example, I can’t imagine how you can convey to your interlocutor by text that I’m winking at him or sticking out my tongue - it will look stupid and won’t produce the desired effect, but a round yellow face with a closed eye or sticking out tongue is just what the doctor ordered.
The peak of the spread of emoticons coincided with the peak of the development of various communication tools - first it was ICQ and Skype, then millions of Contact, Odnoklassniki and Facebook users were drawn into their networks, now every smartphone owner hangs out on Viber or WhatsApp every day.
Emoticons were not always the usual pictures for us now, but now VK automatically converts the code “:)” into a cheerful face, initially the entire designation was through symbols, the sender of the message wrote a set of squiggles, the recipient received them in the same form, understanding to the best of their knowledge, what is meant. At the initial stage, there were few emoticons; almost all of them were intuitive or easy to remember. If you look closely, all the main emoticons look like a face turned to one side.
- Smile - ":)"
- Laughter – “:D”
- Sadness - ":("
- Wink – “;)”
- Indifference – “:-|”
- Cry – “:"(“
- Puzzled – “:-\”
- Amazement – “:-o”
- Surprise – “=-o”
- Language – “:P”
- Kiss – “:-*”
- Constriction – “:-[“
- Profanity, swearing – “:-X”
- Anger – “:-||”
- Nausea - ":-!"
You probably noticed that the described codes are displayed on VKontakte not as symbols, but as beautiful pictures. This is because the social network is programmed that the combination of symbols corresponds to the desired emoticon, and in each network the image itself will be slightly different in appearance. The reason for the differences is that such emoticons are not standardized characters from Unicode and there is no standard for their display. On the one hand, this allows each service to create creative images with any level of beauty, on the other hand, devices and services that do not support the unofficial encoding of emoticons into pictures will not turn them into pictures at all.
But with Unicode characters the situation is different; emoticons written in this code will be supported everywhere and always. Knowing the emoji codes in the Unicode standard, you can insert absolutely any of the almost 1000 emoticons anywhere in VK, be it in a status or on a wall.
Example:
The Laughter emoticon is informally designated as “:D”; this input format will not be converted into an image everywhere. The standardized Unicode code for this emoji is “😄” and will appear as a 😄 icon on all devices.
But Unicode characters have one peculiarity - they are all simple and black and white. And to make them beautiful and colorful, emoji were invented. Each emoji icon corresponds to a different Unicode character. Essentially these are the same Unicode characters, only displayed differently on devices that support emoji. If there is no emoji support, then emoticons will still be shown, only with simple icons. I probably confused you, it’s better to give an example:
Emoji are emoticons written according to the Unicode standard, but displayed with brighter and more colorful pictures from a special library, if this library is connected on the site or service.
The VKontakte Emoji library is included, so all the emoticons on the social network are colorful and beautiful.
How to put an emoticon in VK status?
The above educational program about emoticons and emojis was carried out for a reason, after it it should become clear to you why writing it in the form of a colon with a bracket does not lead to the appearance of a smile emoticon, but remains in the form of a code - this is not the standard.
Is this a familiar picture?
For the desired emoticon to appear, you need to write not “:)”, but “😄”.
Now step by step.
Step 1. Open the status editor
In order to put an emoticon in the VK status, go to your page (the top item of the panel on the left is “My Page”) and under the name, click the “change status” link:
Step 2. Copy the desired emoticon
An editing field will appear in which you can write any text and add any emoticon. Recently, VKontakte status has introduced support for a tooltip with a standard set of emoticons - if among them there is what you need, select it; if not, and the desired emoticon belongs to the hidden category, then there are two ways:
Step 3. Insert an emoticon into the status text
Both inserting the emoticon code and its Unicode character will work. Just note that the smiley code must begin with an ampersand and a hash and end with a semicolon, otherwise VK will not convert it into an image.
- Correct: “😄”
- Incorrect: “128516”
Step 4. Save
How to insert hidden emoticons into messages, discussions and on the VK wall
to America this issue I won't open it. Anyone who has used Contact at least once knows that when you place the mouse cursor in the field for writing text on a wall or in the field for discussing a post, an icon appears on the right that reveals a huge list of emoticons - you can choose any one from it.
For personal messages, this list is even longer, as it includes several bookmarks - individual emoticons for VK (some of them are paid, but for reasonable money, although I don’t see the point in paying, especially since you can get any emoticon you need from the Unicode table ).
But, all these lists do not include all emoji characters supported by Unicode. In total, VK shows about 500 different emoticons, the rest (almost the same number) are left out as hidden ones. That is, it’s not that they are hidden, it’s just that the social network considers these emoticons not important and not popular, and therefore does not display them in the gallery, and their work is supported in the same way as in the status line. And the algorithm for inserting hidden emoticons is similar:
All you need to use hidden emoticons is to have them on hand standard codes. Below I will provide a table of codes, so add a link to this article to your bookmarks so that in the future you don’t have to search for codes for the desired pictures for a long time.
Table of emoticon codes for VK
When inserting emoticon codes on VKontakte, it is mandatory to use opening and closing characters - the emoticon begins with () and ends with (;). Elsewhere you may find codes in pure form, without these symbols, the codes themselves are correct, but they will not work in VK if you do not add the indicated symbols.
Some emoticons look like squares when inserted, but don’t be alarmed, after saving and updating the page, VK will convert them into beautiful pictures.
For comfort when searching for the desired picture, all emoticons are grouped into semantic sections so that you can immediately go to required section, click on the name of the required category from the list:
Codes of yellow emoticons with emotions
😊 😊 - Smile with laughing eyes
☺ ☺ - Stupid smile
😉 😉 - Winking face
😋 😋 - Playful smile tongue hanging out
😀 😀 - Face with a grin
😄 😄 - Happy smile
😌 😌 - Light, pleasant smile
😅 😅 - Joy in a cold sweat
😃 😃 - Admiration, joy
😂 😂 - Tears of joy
😆 😆 - Mocking
😝 😝 - Teasing and laughing a lot
😜 😜 - Teasing
😛 😛 - Shows tongue
😇 😇 - Saint, emoji with a halo
😒 😒 - Joyless face
😐 😐 - Neutral face
😕 😕 - Confused face
😏 😏 - Smirk
😑 😑 - Expressive face
😍 😍 - In love, hearts in the eyes
😘 😘 - Air kiss
😚 😚 - Kiss
😗 😗 - Kissing face
😙 😙 - Kissing face with smiling eyes
😳 😳 - Surprised face
😁 😁 - Smiling face with smiling eyes
😬 😬 - Guilty, unpleasant
😓 😓 - Sadness in a cold sweat
😔 😔 - Thoughtful face
😞 😞 - Disappointment
😥 😥 - Disappointed, but takes it in stride
😩 😩 - Tired face
😫 😫 - Very tired
😣 😣 - Perseverance
😖 😖 - Confused face
😢 😢 - Tears rolled down
😭 😭 - Sobbing face
😪 😪 - Sleepy
😴 😴 - Sleeping face
😷 😷 - Sick, medical mask on face
😎 😎 - Cool, smiley face with black glasses
😰 😰 - Cold sweat
😨 😨 - Scared face
😱 😱 - Screams in fear
😦 😦 - Gloomy face
😠 😠 - Evil face
😡 😡 - Very angry, to the point of redness
😤 😤 - Waiting for triumph, victory, success
😵 😵 - Dizziness
😲 😲 - Surprise
😟 😟 - Concerned face
😧 😧 - Suffering face
😮 😮 - Perplexed face
😯 😯 - Complete bewilderment
😶 😶 - Mouth shut
😈 😈 - Good little devil
👿 👿 - Evil little devil
😺 😺 - Smiling cat
😸 😸 - Happy cat
😿 😿 - The cat is crying
😾 😾 - The cat is angry
😹 😹 - Cat with tears of joy
😻 😻 - The cat is in love
😽 😽 - Cat kiss
😼 😼 - The cat grins
🙀 🙀 - Scared cat
Emoticons depicting people
🎅 🎅 - Santa Claus
👶 👶 - Small child
👧 👧 - Girl
👦 👦 - Boy
👨 👨 - Man
👩 👩 - Woman
👴 👴 - Old Man
👵 👵 - Old lady
👮 👮 - Policeman in a cap
👷 👷 - Builder
👱 👱 - Man with blond hair
👰 👰 - Bride with a bouquet
👲 👲 - Man in a skullcap
👳 👳 - Man in a turban
👸 👸 - Princess
💂 💂 - Guardsman
💁 💁 - Information desk employee
💆 💆 - Head massage
💇 💇 - Hairdresser
🙅 🙅 - Not a good sign
🙆 🙆 - Good sign
🙋 🙋 - Happy man raised one hand
🙎 🙎 - Man with a chubby face
🙍 🙍 - Man with a gloomy face
🙇 🙇 - Bows
👼 👼 - Child angel
💏 💏 - Kiss
💑 💑 - A couple of lovers
👫 👫 - Couple holding hands
👪 👪 - Family
👬 👬 - Two men holding hands
👭 👭 - Two women holding hands
👯 👯 - Women with bunny ears
💃 💃 - Dancing woman
🚶 🚶 - Walking man
🏃 🏃 - Running man
👤 👤 - Bust silhouette
👥 👥 - Bust silhouettes
Emoticon codes with gestures and body parts
👂 👂 – Ear
👃 👃 – Nose
👀 👀 - Eyes
👅 👅 - Language
👄 👄 - Mouth
👍 👍 - Like, thumbs up
👎 👎 - Dislike, thumbs down
👌 👌 - Ok, okay
👊 👊 – Fist
✊ ✊ - Sign of support
✌ ✌ - Victory sign
👐 👐 - Open hands
👋 👋 - Waving hand
✋ ✋ - Welcome sign
👆 👆 - Index finger up
👇 👇 - Index finger down
👉 👉 - Index finger to the right
👈 👈 - Index finger to the left
🙌 🙌 - Raised his hands above himself
🙏 🙏 - Put your palms together
☝ ☝ - Pointer finger up
👏 👏 - Hand clapping
💪 💪 - Demonstration of biceps, strength
💋 💋 - Red lips
Heart emoticons
💛 💛 - Yellow heart
💙 💙 - Blue heart
💜 💜 - Purple Heart
💚 💚 - Green heart
❤ ❤ - Red Heart
🖤 🖤 – Black heart emoticon for VK
💔 💔 - Broken heart
💗 💗 - Growing heart
💓 💓 - Beating Heart
💕 💕 - Two hearts
💖 💖 - Sparkling heart
💞 💞 - Rotating hearts
💘 💘 - Heart pierced by an arrow
💌 💌 - Love letter
💟 💟 - White heart on a dark background
💝 💝 - Heart with bow-ribbon
Holiday emoticons
🎁 🎁 - Gift box
🎀 🎀 - Red ribbon bow
🎈 🎈 - Balloon
🎉 🎉 - Party with confetti
🎊 🎊 - Confetti Ball
🎭 🎭 - Happy and sad mask
🎃 🎃 - Jack-O-Lantern (pumpkin)
Playing card suits
♠ ♠ - Spades (card suit)
- Hearts
♣ ♣ - Clubs
♦ ♦ - Diamonds
Emoticons of numbers on a blue background
0⃣ 0⃣ - Zero
1⃣ 1⃣ - One
2⃣ 2⃣ - Two
3⃣ 3⃣ - Three
4⃣ 4⃣ - Four
5⃣ 5⃣ - Five
6⃣ 6⃣ - Six
7⃣ 7⃣ - Seven
8⃣ 8⃣ - Eight
9⃣ 9⃣ - Nine
🔟 🔟 - Ten
Smileys with clothes and shoes
👑 👑 - Crown
🎩 🎩 - Cylinder hat
🎓 🎓 - Graduation cap
👒 👒 - Women's hat
🎽 🎽 - Shirt with belt
👔 👔 - Tie
👕 👕 - T-shirt
👗 👗 - Summer dress
👚 👚 - Women's clothing
👖 👖 - Jeans
👙 👙 - Open swimsuit
👘 👘 - Kimono
👟 👟 - Sneakers
👞 👞 - Men's shoes
👠 👠 - Women's high heel shoes
👡 👡 - Women's sandals
👢 👢 - Women's boots
👣 👣 - Human traces
👛 👛 - Wallet
👜 👜 - Handbag
👝 👝 - Bag
💼 💼 - Briefcase
🎒 🎒 - School bag
👓 👓 - Glasses
Stationery
✂ ✂ - Scissors
📌 📌 - Pushpin
📍 📍 - Round push pin
📎 📎 - Paper clip
✏ ✏ - Pencil
✒ ✒ - Feather
📏 📏 - Ruler
📐 📐 - Square ruler
📕 📕 - Red Book
📘 📘 - Blue Book
📗 📗 - Green Book
📙 📙 - Orange Book
📖 📖 - Open book
📚 📚 - Stack of books
📔 📔 - Yellow notebook
📓 📓 - Gray notebook
📒 📒 - Notepad
📝 📝 - Note
📁 📁 - Folder
📂 📂 - Open folder
📆 📆 - Tear-off calendar
📅 📅 - Calendar
📋 📋 - Tablet
Smiley codes “zodiac signs”
♈ ♈ - Aries
♉ ♉ - Taurus
♊ ♊ - Gemini
♋ ♋ - Cancer
♌ ♌ - Leo
♍ ♍ - Virgo
♎ ♎ - Libra
♏ ♏ - Scorpio
♐ ♐ - Sagittarius
♑ ♑ - Capricorn
♒ ♒ - Aquarius
♓ ♓ - Pisces
🎹 🎹 - Music Keyboard
🎸 🎸 - Guitar
🎻 🎻 - Violin
🎺 🎺 - Trumpet
🎷 🎷 - Saxophone
📯 📯 - Postal horn
🎼 🎼 - Note row
🎵 🎵 - Note
🎶 🎶 - Several musical notes
City and natural landscapes
⛲ ⛲ - Fountain
🌅 🌅 - Sunrise over the ocean
🌄 🌄 - Sunrise over the mountains
🌃 🌃 - Night city with starry sky
🌆 🌆 - Cityscape at dusk
🌇 🌇 - Sunset over the city
🌁 🌁 - Bridge in the fog
🌉 🌉 - Bridge at night with stars and moon
🌊 🌊 - Sea wave
🌈 🌈 - Rainbow
🌋 🌋 - Vulcan
🌌 🌌 - Milky Way
🌠 🌠 - Shooting Star
🎆 🎆 - Sparkler fireworks
🎇 🎇 - Fireworks
🎢 🎢 - Roller coaster
🎡 🎡 - Ferris wheel
🎠 🎠 - Carousel horse
🗻 🗻 - Mount Fuji
🗽 🗽 - Statue of Liberty
🗾 🗾 - Silhouette of the Japanese Islands
🗼 🗼 - Tokyo Tower
🎑 🎑 - Moonlight Ceremony
🎏 🎏 - Carp streamer
🎐 🎐 - Wind chime
Weather emoticons for VKontakte
☀ ☀ - Sunny
☁ ☁ - Cloudy
⛅ ⛅ - Partly cloudy
☔ ☔ - Rain
❄ ❄ - Snowflake emoticon
⛄ ⛄ - Snowman
Earth, sun and moon phases
🌎 🌎 - Earth globe overlooking America
🌍 🌍 - Earth globe overlooking Africa
🌏 🌏 - Earth globe overlooking Asia-Australia
🌐 🌐 - Globe with meridians
🌞 🌞 - Sun with a face
🌝 🌝 - Full moon with face
🌚 🌚 - New Moon with a face
🌑 🌑 - New Moon
🌒 🌒 - Waxing moon
🌓 🌓 - Moon in the first quarter
🌔 🌔 - Waxing moon
🌕 🌕 - Full moon
🌖 🌖 - Waning moon
🌗 🌗 - Last quarter of the moon
🌘 🌘 - Waning moon
🌙 🌙 - Crescent
🌛 🌛 - First quarter moon with face
🌜 🌜 - Last quarter moon with face
Fauna (fish, birds, animals, insects)
🐋 🐋 - Keith
🐙 🐙 - Octopus
🐚 🐚 - Spiral shell
🐟 🐟 - Fish
🎣 🎣 - Fish on a hook
🐠 🐠 - Tropical fish
🐡 🐡 - Pufferfish
🐢 🐢 - Turtle
🐬 🐬 - Dolphin
🐳 🐳 - Whale releasing a fountain
🐸 🐸 - Frog face
🐊 🐊 - Crocodile
🐲 🐲 - Dragon head
🐉 🐉 - Dragon
🐔 🐔 - Chicken head
🐓 🐓 - Chicken
🐤 🐤 - Chicken head
🐥 🐥 - Chicken
🐣 🐣 - Hatched chicken
🐦 🐦 - Bird's head
🐧 🐧 - Penguin head
🐂 🐂 - Bull
🐄 🐄 - Cow
🐃 🐃 - Ram
🐮 🐮 - Cow head
🐆 🐆 - Leopard
🐇 🐇 - Rabbit
🐰 🐰 - Rabbit head
🐈 🐈 - Cat
🐎 🐎 - Horse
🐏 🐏 - Ram
🐐 🐐 - Goat
🐑 🐑 - Sheep
🐕 🐕 - Dog
🐖 🐖 - Pig
🐱 🐱 - Cat's head
🐷 🐷 - Pig head
🐽 🐽 - Piglet
🐶 🐶 - Dog head
🐴 🐴 - Horse head
🐀 🐀 - Rat
🐭 🐭 - Mouse head
🐁 🐁 - Mouse
🐅 🐅 - Tiger
🐍 🐍 - Snake
🐒 🐒 - Monkey
🐗 🐗 - Boar's head
🐘 🐘 - Elephant
🐨 🐨 - Koala
🐪 🐪 - Camel
🐫 🐫 - Bactrian camel
🐯 🐯 - Tiger head
🐵 🐵 - Monkey head
🙈 🙈 - The monkey closed his eyes, “I don’t see”
🙊 🙊 - The monkey closed his mouth, “I’m not saying”
🙉 🙉 - The monkey covered his ears “I can’t hear”
🐹 🐹 - Hamster head
🐻 🐻 - Bear head
🐼 🐼 - Panda head
🐺 🐺 - Fox head
🐾 🐾 - Paw prints
🐩 🐩 - Dog
🐝 🐝 - Honey bee
🐜 🐜 - Ant
🐞 🐞 - Ladybug
🐛 🐛 - Caterpillar
🐌 🐌 - Snail
Emoticons for VK with images of flowers
💐 💐 - Bouquet of flowers
🌸 🌸 - Cherry blossom
🌷 🌷 - Tulip
🌹 🌹 - Rose flower
🌻 🌻 - Sunflower
🌼 🌼 - Chamomile Flower
💮 💮 - White flower
🌺 🌺 - Hibiscus flower
Plant emoticons for VKontakte
🍀 🍀 - Four-leaf clover
🍁 🍁 - Maple leaf
🍃 🍃 - Leaf fluttering in the wind
🍂 🍂 - Fallen leaves
🌿 🌿 - Greens
🌾 🌾 - Spikelets of rice
🌵 🌵 - Cactus
🌱 🌱 - Sapling
🌴 🌴 - Palm tree
🌳 🌳 - Deciduous tree
🎍 🎍 - Pine decorations
🌲 🌲 - Pine
🎄 🎄 - Christmas tree
🎋 🎋 - Tanabata Tree
🍄 🍄 - Mushroom
An emoticon is a set of symbols or icon that is a visual representation of a facial expression or body position to convey a mood, attitude or emotion, originally used in messages email And text messages. The most famous is the smiling face emoji, i.e. smile - :-) .
There is no clear and reliable evidence about who invented the emoticon. Of course, you can point to ancient excavations, finds of various inscriptions on rocks, etc., but these will only be guesses from each of us.
Of course, to say for sure that the emoticon is a modern invention is a little wrong. The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century. Examples of their use can be found in a copy of the American magazine "Puck" from 1881, see example:
Yes, there are many such examples in history, but it is generally accepted that the first digital view emoji, was responsible for Carnegie Mellon University researcher Scott Fahlman. He suggested distinguishing serious messages from frivolous ones by using emoticons :-) and :-(. This was all the way back on September 19, 1982. This is especially useful when the sentiment of your message can be misinterpreted.
YES, BUT YOU NEVER ARRIVE ON TIME, ANYWAY.
YES, BUT YOU NEVER ARRIVE ON TIME, ANYWAY. ;-)
However, emoticons did not become so popular, but revealed their potential 14 years later, thanks to a Frenchman who lived in London - Nicolas Laufrani. The idea arose even earlier, from Nicolas’s father, Franklin Laufrani. It was he who, as a journalist for the French newspaper France Soir, published an article on January 1, 1972, under the heading “Take time to smile!”, where he used emoticons to highlight his article. Later he patented it as a trademark and created the production of some products using the smiley. Then a company was created under the brand name Smiley, where father Franklin Loufrani became president, and son Nicolas Loufrani became general director.
It was Nicolas who noticed the popularity of ASCII emoticons, which were widely used on mobile phones, and began developing directly animated emoticons that would correspond to ASCII emoticons consisting of simple characters, i.e. what we now use and are accustomed to calling - smiley. He created a catalog of emoticons, which he divided into categories “Emotions”, “Holidays”, “Food”, etc. And in 1997, this catalog was registered with the US Copyright Office.
Around the same time in Japan, Shigetaka Kurita began designing emoticons for I-mode. But unfortunately, the widespread use of this project never happened. Maybe because in 2001 Laufrani's creation was licensed by Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, and other manufacturers mobile phones, who later began offering them to their users. After that, the world was simply inundated with various interpretations of emoticons and emoticons.
The following variations with smaliks and emoticons became the appearance stickers in 2011. They were created by the leading Internet company from Korea - Naver. The company has developed a messaging platform called - Line. A similar messaging application like WhatsApp. LINE was developed in the months following the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Initially, LIne was created to find friends and relatives during and after natural disasters and in the first year, the number of users grew to 50 million. Afterwards, with the publication of games and stickers, there were already more than 400 million, which later became one one of the most popular apps in Japan, particularly among teenagers.
Emoticons, emoticons and stickers today, after more than 30 years, they have definitely begun to occupy a place in people’s everyday conversations and correspondence. According to research conducted in the United States, it was found that 74 percent of people in the United States regularly use stickers and emoticons in their online communications, sending an average of 96 emoticons or stickers per day. The reason for this explosion in use Emoji is that the creative characters designed various companies, help express our feelings, help add humor, sadness, happiness, etc.
The emoticons in the tables will be gradually replenished, so go to the site and look for the meaning of the desired emoticons.
Emoticons have become such a part of our lives that without them the alphabet looks incomplete, and messages seem dry and distant. But even such a frivolous and childishly simple task as arranging emojis has its own subtleties.
What do different emoticons mean?
With object emoticons, everything is simple: they mean what they represent. A ball is a ball, an alarm clock is an alarm clock, and there’s nothing to think about. But with face emoticons the task becomes more complicated. We are not always able to correctly guess emotions from the faces of living people, let alone the faces of koloboks. There are emoticons whose meaning is obvious:
Fun, laughter, joy, rejoicing.
Sadness, melancholy, melancholy, dissatisfaction.
Playful mood, teasing.
Surprise, amazement, shock, fear.
Anger, resentment, rage.
And a few more similar ones - that's all possible options families and romantic unions.
But among the emoticons there are also those whose meaning can be interpreted ambiguously, or even be completely confusing:
This emoticon depicts a person crying in three - well, two - streams, but in the version for Apple devices Because of his raised eyebrows and his mouth, which is not distorted from sobs, he is often perceived as laughing until he bursts into tears. Be careful with them: you want to indicate grief to them, but they will misunderstand you.
This emoticon is intended to represent silence. Instead, he just scares you to death.
If everything is more or less clear with the evil devil (“angry as hell”), then the cheerful devil is somewhat puzzling. Most likely, he is not only furious, but also looking forward to dancing on your opponent’s grave. But you, perhaps, just wanted to show originality and an unusual smiley.
Despite the fact that the three wise monkeys did not see, hear or speak anything precisely because of their wisdom, these muzzles cover their eyes, mouth and ears in shame, confusion and shock.
A set of cat emoticons for those who consider ordinary koloboks to be insufficiently expressive and want to add sweetness to their emotions.
Instead of “hello” and “bye,” you can wave your hand.
Raised hands, a gesture of joyful greeting or jubilation.
The applause is both sincere and sarcastic.
If in this picture you see hands folded in a prayer gesture, then for you the emoji may mean “thank you” or “I beg you.” Well, if you see a high-five happening here, it means you are a very cheerful person.
A raised index finger can emphasize the importance of a message or express a request to interrupt the interlocutor with a question, or it can simply indicate a previous message in the chat.
Fingers crossed for luck.
For some it’s “stop”, but for others it’s “high five!”
No, it's not a truffle. Not even a truffle at all.
Ogre and Japanese goblin. Looks like someone is missing the usual devils.
Liar. His nose grows like Pinocchio's every time he lies.
These are eyes wide with amazement, and the darting eyes of a scoundrel, and even a lustful look. If someone sends you such an emoticon in a comment to a photo, you can be sure that the photo is good.
And it's just an eye, and it's watching you.
New moon and full moon. It seems like nothing special, but these emoticons have their fans who value them for their creepy facial expressions.
A very common girl in purple. Her gestures mean OK (arms above her head), no (crossed arms), hello, or I know the answer (raised hand). This character has another pose that confuses many - . By official version, it symbolizes the worker help desk. Apparently, she is showing with her hand how to get to the city library.
Do you also see two tense faces here, presumably in an unfriendly mood? But they didn’t guess: according to Apple’s hints, this is an embarrassed face and a stubborn face. Who would have thought!
By the way, you can see hints for emoticons in the message window on if you open an emoji and hover over the emoticon you are interested in. Like this:
Another way to find out the meaning of an emoticon is to turn to emojipedia.org for help. On it you will find not only detailed interpretations of emoticons, but you can also see how the same emoticon looks on different platforms. Many unexpected discoveries await you.
Where are emoticons appropriate?
1. In informal friendly correspondence
Funny yellow faces are appropriate in a personal chat, where you share not so much information as your mood. With the help of emoticons, you will laugh at a joke, sympathize, and make faces at each other. This is where emotions belong.
2. When emotions splash over the edge and there are not enough words
Sometimes, when something very important happens in our lives, we are so overwhelmed by feelings that we are about to burst. Then we write an emotional post on Facebook or post a dazzling photo on Instagram and decorate it with a generous scattering of emoticons. Some people, of course, won’t like this, but what now, stifling all the bright sensations in yourself? The main thing is not to overuse such public displays of violent emotions: this will alienate subscribers and call into question your adequacy.
3. By agreement, to highlight messages in work correspondence
It's very simple and convenient way make noticeable important messages requiring urgent response. For example, great for these purposes. But you need to agree in advance which cases are considered urgent in your company and what emoticon you will use for this.
It’s important not to overdo it: if you have one emoticon for messages about emergency situations, a second one for urgent issues, a third one for important news, then soon all work correspondence will turn into a New Year's garland that no one looks at.
When is it better to do without emoticons?
1. In business correspondence
Work is no place for emotions. Here you are required to be calm, collected and professional. Even if you want to emphasize your friendliness or express concern about a situation, use , not emoticons, for these purposes.
2. When communicating with foreigners
This is especially true for gesture emoticons. For example, the person you wanted to express approval of will put an end to your good relationship with a person from Greece or Thailand. Of course, with this gesture you sent him to hell.
Therefore, if you are not confident in your deep knowledge of the peculiarities of the national culture of your interlocutor, do not take risks.
3. Oddly enough, when you discuss feelings and emotions
Feelings are a serious matter. If you are not just chatting, but revealing your soul or sharing something important, words will convey your feelings and experiences much more accurately than emoticons. “You are dearer to me than anyone in the world” means much more than ten hearts in a row. In the end, you only have one heart, so give it away.
Remember that emojis are a seasoning, not the main ingredient. You only need a small amount to add punch to your message.
Emoji language
Judging by the fact that today almost no personal correspondence is complete without emoticons, we can safely say that emoji have become an independent section of the language. Sometimes they even pretend to replace language: you can write an entire message using only emoticons. In the popular American TV show Ellen DeGeneres there is even a special section in which guests are invited to read a phrase where some of the words are replaced with emoji:
And here the name of the film is encrypted, which we invite you to guess.
The article will talk about what a smiley means and what they are. It is worth noting that emoticons have long entered our lives and are well established in it, because they, like nothing else, can convey a person’s emotions and feelings.
There are people who regularly communicate using emoticons, because with the development of progress there are already animated emoticons that can wave, wink, jump and change colors.
There are several alphabets of emoticons, the most common being standard And Japanese. Japanese emoticons differ in that they pay more attention to the eyes, while standard emoticons pay more attention to the mouth.
The history of emoticons
Today, almost no private letter on the Internet is complete without emoticons. Some people get offended if a friend doesn't put a colon and a right parenthesis at the end of a letter. Of course, this is stupid, but emoticons are already so closely connected with our lives.
Modern children may think that emoticons have always existed, but in fact, for the first time, a smiley was drawn Harvey Bell- an artist by training. In the early sixties, America witnessed a war between insurers. The employees were afraid of getting laid off and, in order to cheer themselves and each other up, they distracted themselves and tried to communicate politely and affably with the remaining clients.
One insurance company, in order to stay afloat, decided to hold a promotion for which they needed an interesting drawing. At the end of 1963, they approached Harvey with this request. He drew the first smiley :-) , which took him ten minutes to design. For the drawing he was paid mere pennies: 43 dollars. Then he did not yet know that his simple drawing would become so popular, so he did not register any rights to it. The first Harvey emojis were pinned and given out to customers. People liked these sweet smiles so much that the company contacted the artist again and ordered ten thousand more emoticons.
Another story that played an important role in the development of the emoticon is the seventies, when brothers from Spain developed the slogan " Happy day!" Since that time, smileys began to be depicted on clothes. In 1971, a FrenchmanFranklin Loufraney was registered trademark smiley in eighty countries.
And the first electronic emoticons appeared in the sixties of the last century. Then emoticons were used in encoding Unicode. In 1982, Microsoft decided to create emoticons, thanks to which you can show emotions.
What do emoticons mean? decoding
Emoticons can convey almost every human emotion, from cheerful laughter to tears. Below is a table that indicates what this or that smiley means.
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This emoji is depicted in the shape of a person's face and means a smile. |
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Wild laughter |
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Tenderness |
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Wink |
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Seriousness |
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Chagrin |
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Shock: in the first case pleasant, in the second not |
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Laughter to tears |
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:-P,=P,:b, :-b, :p |
Show tongue |
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Disgust |
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3 - this emoticon means a cute cat face or “bow lips” (cuteness). Options-:3:=3:-3
These are the most common emoticons, the designation of which many people know.
Smiley and grief
The smile and grief emoji, presented first in the table, have often changed and morphed over time. When people began to use emoticons in communication, they consisted of eyes, nose and mouth. Then the nose disappeared somewhere. And the eyes began to be drawn not with dashes, but simply with dots. Many people are familiar with when a smiley had only one eye - .) , and then he disappeared, to show a smile or sadness, people only put parentheses. To show joy or sadness, many parentheses are placed. If we're talking about about strong disappointment, then it can be shown like this - ((( or so - :WITH.
What do emoticons mean on VKontakte?
On a social network VK There are two types of emoticons, the standard ones discussed above, and the voluminous ones offered by the service itself. For three years now, VKontakte users have been able to use emoticons, since only in August 2012 such an opportunity was added for communication in personal correspondence. Until this time, Vkontakte users had to independently create symbols of emotions from punctuation marks. But the developers have made their task easier: the user can open a menu of emoticons and select the one that describes his condition.
Initially, about thirty emoticons appeared on the network, but after a while another hundred were added, which depicted not only emotions, but also the actions of people, as well as food and animals. But due to the wide variety of emoticons, people’s communication is not always clear. Not all people understand the meaning of a particular emoticon, or understand it differently. To prevent such situations from arising with you, you need to write a few words in addition to the smiley so that the interlocutor understands you.
Popular VKonakt emoticons the following can be mentioned:
- :ok - everything is fine;
- -:o - fear;
- -3(- sadness;
- -8) - love;
- -:] - stupid smile.
There are also hidden emoticons in VK that can be sent to users by pressing a few keys. But the disadvantage of such emoticons is that they are black and therefore repel many users.
The most common commands include the following:
- ALT+ 1 - white emoticon indicating a smile ☺
- ALT+2 - black smile: ☻
- ALT+3 - heart of love:
- ALT+ 11 - male symbol: ♂
- ALT+12 - female symbol: ♀
- ALT+13 - melody:♪
- ALT+ 15 - sun: ☼
For the symbol to appear in the message you need to:
- Hold down the “Alt” key on your keyboard
- Dial digital combination
- Release the Alt key
What does emoticon 3 mean?
The table above showed this emoticon and said that it means tenderness. But it’s worth taking a closer look at its decoding, since not many people understand it. This symbol is associated with animals such as dogs and cats. And indeed, if you look closely, it looks like the face of an animal. In another way, this smiley stands for “ cute"- this is exactly how you can characterize any cute animal.
This emoticon should not be confused with <3 , which means heart.
Many people and smiley :3 considered a kiss, but they are mistaken because it does not mean exactly a kiss, namely cuteness.
There was a period of time when this emoticon was read from a mathematical point of view, and it meant nothing more than divide by 3. But this is a comic version that did not take root among Internet users for a long time.
Action emoticons
As mentioned above, emoticons can replace a person’s written speech and entire expressions. After all, their collection is constantly being replenished, and soon people will be able to communicate only with emoticons. Below are several emoticons that represent human actions.
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Laugh loudly |
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Listen to music on headphones |
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Wave your hand |
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(>^_^)(^_^<) |
Hug |
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Go crazy |
As we can see from the table, you can even talk about your actions and desires with emoticons. Some social networks have emoticons that mean that a person is reading a book, relaxing, eating or playing ball.
We looked in detail at what emoticons mean and how they can be used to express actions and emotions. In a few years they may replace written language. After all, it is much easier for people to put an emoticon than to write for a long time and explain to the person what he is doing or what emotion he is currently showing.
Video with decoding of emoticons
When talking to a person in person, you can easily express your emotions on your face and the interlocutor will immediately understand what you feel or want to say. However, nowadays communication through various social networks is becoming increasingly popular. And in order to make communication as convenient and colorful as possible, we came up with emoticons.
They are stylized graphic images, namely, a cartoon face expressing various emotions, such as joy, anger, anger, admiration and others. Thanks to this, you can very easily understand a person’s mood and shorten your message significantly, which makes communication more exciting. Also, if you happen to somehow contact a foreigner, but you don’t know the language he speaks, then emoticons will be of great help, since they are international means of communication.
A little history
In the 17th century in Slovakia, emoticons were used to convey positive emotions. The eccentric play "In Futurum", written by Erwin Schulhof in 1919, contains 4 emoticons that convey different emotions. The film “Port City” also stood out with an emoticon, only it expressed painful despair.
The stylized image was used in the films Lili (1953) and Gigi (1958). It was no longer an expression of sorrow, but an expression of happiness. The image of emoticons continues to be popularized and various well-known companies and brands do not hesitate to use them in their everyday life. They are used in many films and TV series, including Forrest Gump. Also, from 2005 to 2013, the smiley became the emblem of the All-Russian youth forum Seliger.
Basic emoticons and their meaning
- 🙂 - means smile at the interlocutor's
- 🙂 — smile, but only from a lazy interlocutor
- ) — smile with a very lazy or very tired interlocutor
- ,-) - means wink
- 😉 - Also wink
- :- > — sarcasm
- (-: - also means smile, only differs from the first one in that it is left-handed
- 🙁 - expresses sadness
- : < - expresses even more sadness than the previous one
- :WITH- Also sadness
- :-* - means kiss
- :* — kiss. A more simplified version
How to insert emoticons on VKontakte
If you want to insert a graphic emoticon on VKontakte, then you need to look at the table attached below, select the one that suits the type of your message and insert the emoticon into the message, everything is extremely simple. Just don't forget put a space between words and emoticons, otherwise VKontakte will not recognize them. You were probably confused by the fact that VKontakte interprets emoticons into pictures. The whole point is that Emoji- these are characters from any Unicode font that exist on any gadget. A text emoticons is an unofficial interpretation of Emoji. 
How to insert emoticons into VK status
There are several options for inserting emoticons into the status.
Decoding the main emoticons
This table contains frequently used emoticons on VKontakte. For new users or simply for those who want to get to know this topic better, this will be a great help. 
