Shaking, hiding, screaming and running away, all drawn in text. Tap a frightened face and it lands on your clipboard.
A scared kaomoji shows fear through three tricks. Stacked brackets like ((( ))) are motion lines, so the whole face reads as shaking. A wide-open mouth such as Д or ロ is a gasp or a scream. A semicolon beside the face is a bead of cold sweat. Faces peeking around ┬┴┬┴┤ are looking out from behind a wall, and ε=ε=ε= is a dust trail left by someone running off. People use these for horror films, jump scares, exam results and any message they are nervous to open. For the 😨 😱 picture versions, see the scared emoji page linked below. A few faces use Yi or Lao letters for the eyes, and an older device may draw those as boxes.
The extra brackets on each side are the shake. More brackets means a harder tremble.
Half a face behind a wall or a door: the reader is too frightened to come out fully.
Σ in front of a face is a jolt line from manga, the mark drawn when a character jumps.
Quieter fear: dread, unease and the cold sweat before bad news.
The ε= marks are the dust cloud behind a fleeing figure, so these read as moving left to right.
Each extra bracket is a motion line, the way a comic artist draws vibration around a shaking character. The semicolons are sweat drops and ꏿ, a letter from the Yi script, gives the big round eyes.
ガクガク (gakugaku) is Japanese onomatopoeia for trembling or knees knocking together. Put in front of a shaking face, it spells out the fear in sound as well as in shape.
A shocked face like Σ(ﾟロﾟ) is a single moment of surprise and can be good news. A scared face adds signs of fear that last: shaking brackets, sweat, hiding behind a wall or running away.
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 →😨 😱 😰 and the other fear emoji, with what each one signals.
Jaw-drop and gasp faces for news that lands out of nowhere.
Tear-streaked text faces, from a single tear to full sobbing.
Every kaomoji collection on the site, grouped by feeling.
Pick eyes, mouth and arms to assemble your own frightened face.