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From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
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Subject: Japanese Emoticons
Date: 17 Dec 1994 02:01:23 GMT
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Subject: Re: Japanese Smiley ( reply )
From: cmiyagis@husc9.harvard.edu (Corwyn Miyagishima)
Date: 14 Jan 94 13:37:11 GMT
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Basic smilie:
^_^

Crying smilie (an oxymoron?):
;_;

Boggled eyes smilie (or glasses):
@_@

Kowtowing (bowing) person:
(_o_)

Octopus:
~\\ (^o^) /~/~

Ultraman:
(o|o)

Barutan (one of the monsters from "Ultraman"):
(Y)oYo(Y)

Blushing smilie:
*^_^*

Embarassed smilie (cold sweat):
^_^;;;
(you can also omit the mouth for this one)
^^;;;

That's all I can think of right now...

-Corwyn Miyagishima

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From: masuda@ecal_6.e.dendai.ac.jp (Hidetaka MASUDA)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Japanese Smiley ( reply )
Date: 15 Jan 1994 01:18:30 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Eng., Tokyo Denki Univ., Tokyo, Japan
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I'm always using following marks.

Happy!
\(^o^\)(/^.^)/

Hello!
(^.^)/

Bye!
(;.;)/~

Hurt!
(>_<)

Shy!
(*^_^*)

Sleepy!
(=_=)~

Cold!
{{(>_<)}}

Other marks has 2byte code, so I will not post this group.

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Hidetaka MASUDA
Tokyo Denki University
E-mail: masuda@e.dendai.ac.jp  

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