Paste any text face to decode it — its name, meaning, mood, and a part-by-part breakdown of the eyes, mouth, and arms.
Paste a face and the decoder does two things. First it checks a dictionary of well-known kaomoji — the shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, the Lenny face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), the look of disapproval ಠ_ಠ, the table flip, and dozens more — and names it outright. Then it reads the face glyph by glyph, recognising the eyes, mouth, cheeks, and arms, and tells you the mood those parts add up to. Every face is plain Unicode text, so you can copy it or open it in the generator to remix it.
Want the reverse — turning a mood into a face? The kaomoji generator filters parts by mood so you can build one, and the kaomoji library has hundreds ready to copy.
Mix eyes, mouths, and arms into a custom text face by mood, then copy it in one click.
Open the Kaomoji Generator →Learn more: what is a kaomoji, what UwU means, and what o7 means. Or browse the full kaomoji library.
Paste a kaomoji and the decoder matches it against a dictionary of well-known faces and breaks it down glyph by glyph. It shows the face's name (if it has one), a plain-English meaning, its mood, and what each part — the eyes, mouth, cheeks, and arms — represents.
Paste it into the box above to find out. Common faces like the shrug, Lenny face, and look of disapproval are recognised by name; for anything else the decoder reads the parts and tells you the mood the face conveys.
Yes. Decoding is unlimited and free, runs entirely in your browser, and needs no signup. You can copy any face or open it in the generator to remix it.
Yes. Use the kaomoji generator: pick a mood and it filters the parts so you can build a face that matches — happy, sad, love, angry, and more.