Copy and paste kaomoji — Japanese-style text emoticons built from Unicode characters. Happy faces, sad faces, shrugs, animals, and action expressions. Click any face to copy it instantly.
Kaomoji (顔文字) are emoticons that originated in Japan, built from standard keyboard characters and Unicode symbols. Unlike emoji, kaomoji are read horizontally and often capture nuanced expressions that emoji can't fully convey. They work in any text field and add personality to messages, bios, and captions.
The word kaomoji literally means "face characters" (顔 kao, "face" + 文字 moji, "character") — and is also very commonly spelled kamoji, so a search for "kamoji" and a search for "kaomoji" mean the same thing. Where Western emoticons like :-) are read sideways, kaomoji such as (◕‿◕) are read upright, which makes the eyes, mouth, and even arms much easier to recognize at a glance. Because every kaomoji on this page is pure Unicode text — not an image or emoji font — it pastes cleanly into Instagram bios, TikTok captions, Discord messages, YouTube comments, usernames, and almost any other text field without turning into a broken box.
Browse the categories below and click any face to copy it instantly. Each one is grouped by mood — happy, sad, shrug, love, cute, angry, sleepy, and more — so you can find the right expression in seconds.
Joyful and positive text face expressions for upbeat messages.
Sad, crying, and upset text face expressions.
Shrugging, confused, and deadpan text face expressions.
Loving and affectionate text face expressions.
Cute animal text faces for messages and social media.
Action kaomoji expressing movement, frustration, and dramatic reactions.
The classic Lenny face and its smirking, winking, and arm-raised variants. Each one copies as a complete face.
Hard-laughing and laughing-until-you-cry text faces — the kaomoji answer to the crying-laughing emoji.
Ready-made kaomoji sets grouped by mood — copy a whole set of related faces in one click for chats, captions, and comments.
Copy hug kaomoji with their reaching-arms and cuddle variants — the text-face way to send a virtual hug.
Copy kaomoji built around big sparkly eyes — cat faces and wide cute-eyed expressions.
A kamoji is a Japanese-style text emoticon — a little face built from standard keyboard and Unicode characters, like (◕‿◕), ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, or (｡•́︿•̀｡). Unlike emoji, kamoji are read upright rather than sideways, so the eyes, mouth, and arms are easy to recognise at a glance. Every kamoji on this page is plain text you can copy and paste into any bio, caption, comment, or username.
Yes. Kamoji is simply a common shortened spelling of kaomoji (顔文字), the Japanese term for text-based emoticons. The two words refer to exactly the same thing — text faces such as (^▽^) and (T_T) — so searching for kamoji or kaomoji brings up the same kind of faces.
Click any kamoji on this page to copy it instantly, then paste it wherever you type — Instagram and TikTok bios, Discord and WhatsApp messages, YouTube comments, or usernames. Because each kamoji is pure Unicode text rather than an image, it pastes cleanly without turning into a broken box.
An emoji is a single coloured picture character rendered by the device's emoji font (😀), while a kamoji is a face assembled from ordinary text characters that you read upright, like (≧◡≦). Kamoji are more flexible and expressive for nuanced moods, and they look the same everywhere because they are built from standard Unicode text.
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