Sweat drops, forced smiles and worried frowns for the moments a plain smile would be a lie. A single tap copies the face you pick.
The mark that makes a kaomoji nervous is the semicolon. In (^_^;) the ; sits outside the eye, where manga artists draw a single big drop of sweat beside a character's head when they are embarrassed, caught out or under pressure. Two or three of them, as in (;;;･_･), turn that into sweating buckets. Read the eyes before you send one: in (;_;) the semicolons are the eyes themselves, with a tear running down, so that face is crying rather than nervous. The 〃 mark works like a small sweat or blush line, and ゞ at the end is a hand scratching the back of the head. Every face here is plain text, so it works in any chat, comment or caption.
One semicolon beside the face: the everyday 😅 of text faces, used after a small mistake or an awkward reply.
Shifting eyes and forced smiles for waiting on exam results, a reply from a crush or a boss's message.
Here the mouth turns down. ︿ is a frown and the slanted eyebrows ´ ` tilt the face into concern rather than embarrassment.
Flat mouths and side glances for the silence after a joke lands badly.
Several drops at once. The A ``` on the end is a hand wiping the brow, a face that spread from Japanese forum 2channel.
It is a drop of sweat on the side of the face, taken from manga, where a large sweat drop by a character's head shows embarrassment or nervousness. The face means roughly the same as the 😅 emoji.
No. In (;_;) the semicolons are the eyes, with the comma part as a tear, so it is a crying face. A nervous face keeps normal eyes and puts the ; outside them, as in (・_・;).
Nervous faces react to something that has not happened yet, so they use wide or shifting eyes. Awkward faces react to something that already went wrong, so they use flat mouths like ー and _ and a sideways look.
The UltraTextGen kaomoji generator filters the parts by mood, then lets you swap the outline, eyes and mouth and add cheeks or arms, keeping the left and right sides matched. Every part is plain Unicode text, so the face pastes wherever you are typing.
Open the kaomoji generator →Gasping, jaw-dropped faces for when the bad news actually arrives.
Flustered faces with blush marks, the shy cousin of the sweat drop.
Where (;_;) lives: tearful faces whose semicolons are eyes.
Every kaomoji family on the site, from happy to table flips.
Pick eyes, a mouth and a sweat drop to make a nervous face of your own.