KakaoTalk Symbols

꒰ ꒱ ♡ ⋆ ⊹ ㅋㅋ ㅠㅠ: frames for your name, accents for your status, and the jamo shorthand that carries most of the tone in Korean chat.

One thing to clear up first, because it is the reason most people land here: KakaoTalk's own <em>이모티콘</em> are paid, animated sticker packs sold inside the app. Those are licensed artwork. Nobody can copy-paste them, here or anywhere. What you <strong>can</strong> paste is Unicode: the bracket frames Korean users wrap display names in, the small accents that decorate a status message, and the Hangul-jamo shorthand that does the work emoji do in English. That is what this page collects.

Display Name Frames

Display Name Frames

Wrapped around a name, these read as a frame. KakaoTalk allows them in the profile name field where emoji are often stripped.

Soft Bracket (open)
Soft Bracket (close)
Corner Bracket (open)
Corner Bracket (close)
White Corner (open)
White Corner (close)
Top-Left Corner
Bottom-Right Corner
Left Flourish
Right Flourish
Khmer Flourish
Ornate Parenthesis
Status Message Accents

Status Message Accents

Small marks for the one-line status under your name. They stay thin at small sizes, which is the whole point there.

Small Star
Thin Cross
Filled Sparkle
Hollow Sparkle
Ring Above
Small Circle
Middle Dot
Superscript Plus
Dotted Circle
Small Flower
Hearts for KakaoTalk

Hearts for KakaoTalk

Text hearts, not emoji hearts: these keep your text colour instead of turning red.

Hollow Heart
Filled Heart
Drooping Heart
Heart Exclamation
Sinhala Heart
Georgian Heart
Winged Heart Frame
Struck Heart
Dividers & Separators

Dividers & Separators

For splitting a status line into parts, or spacing a name out.

Katakana Middle Dot
Dashed Line
Dashed Vertical
Wavy Line
Light Horizontal
Double Dash
Arc
Wavy Dash
Hangul Jamo Shorthand

Hangul Jamo Shorthand

Not decoration. This is how Korean chat actually carries tone. Consonants only, no vowels, read as sound or as initials.

Laughing (kk)
Softer Laugh
Crying
Crying (variant)
Yeah / OK
No / Nope
Bye Bye
Thanks (감사)
Congrats (축하)
Good Work (수고)
Ready-Made Combos

Ready-Made Combos

Put your name in the middle of any of these and paste the whole thing.

Sparkle Frame
Star Trail
Heart Halo
Corner Accent
Flourish Pair
Flower Divider

Why Korean chat leans on consonants instead of emoji

Frequently Asked Questions

KakaoTalk Symbol FAQ

Can I copy KakaoTalk's actual emoticons?

No. The animated character sets (Ryan, Apeach, and the rest) are licensed artwork sold as paid packs inside KakaoTalk, and they only exist as images the app renders for accounts that own them. Nothing on this page or any other site can hand you one as text. The symbols here are Unicode characters, which is a different thing that happens to serve the same decorating job.

Why do some emoji look different on KakaoTalk than in my Messages app?

KakaoTalk substitutes its own artwork for part of the standard emoji set, so the same character can be drawn two ways on one phone depending which app you are in. The underlying character never changes, so anything you copy still arrives intact. Only the drawing differs.

Will these work in my KakaoTalk display name?

The bracket, star and heart characters generally do, which is exactly why Korean users reach for them: emoji are stripped or rejected in a lot of name fields and these are not. Keep it short: a name padded out with frames gets truncated in the friend list before the frame closes.

What does ㅋㅋ actually mean?

It is the consonant ㅋ repeated, read as a k-k sound, the Korean equivalent of writing haha. Length scales with amusement, so ㅋ is an acknowledgement and ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ is genuine laughter. ㅎㅎ is the gentler version, closer to a smile than a laugh.

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