The word "Yan Zi" we are talking about now generally refers to Japanese Yan Zi or Japanese Yan Zi. Americans call Yan Wen "emotion". It is characterized by using punctuation marks and English words to make some very simple facial patterns on the computer (formerly typewriter). The most commonly used words are:-) for smiling and:-(for unhappy. XD, which stands for laughter, is also very popular (this is also the most commonly used American Chinese character in Hong Kong). Other common ones are: -o (surprise) and: -p (sticking out your tongue, that is, joking). Because the containing word type is an incomplete expression inclined to the left. The Japanese have also used emoticons for a long time. In recent years, they have developed them and established a set of Japanese characters. Japanese characters are much more complicated than American characters. They are more lovely, creative and artistic. Japanese writing system is different from English, and it can use more symbols than English, so it has the innate conditions to develop its own brand-new characters. The face is normal (not falling off), but the eyes and mouth expressions are particularly rich. You can see the creativity of Japanese netizens from the word Yan. Today, the Japanese are experts in ASCII art, how to make complex patterns, and even ASCII art animation and computer software have appeared. However, some netizens in Japan deny that Japanese characters are influenced by the United States and even use Japanese characters to illustrate the superiority of Japanese culture. Many Japanese people (especially people in Channel2) don't recognize Yan characters as ascii art, and even think that Japanese things should be called jis art (because Japanese uses JIS code), while foreigners' things are ASCII art. "[1] On 2ch, the largest bbs portal in Japan, you can see all kinds of rich and wonderful characters, and in the famous Electric Bike Man, Oguri Shun always plays a very cute character pattern at the end. Yan characters can create all kinds of works to express their feelings or paint vivid pictures, which is very individual, artistic and creative. It is the representative product of network culture and the crystallization of collective wisdom. Yan characters were originally just a network subculture. With the popularity of the Internet and mobile phone short messages, they have been widely accepted by the society. Later, many communication programs (especially instant messaging programs) and forums began to use more vivid icons to express Emotions, so at the end of the twentieth century, new words to explain these emoticons appeared in English, that is, emotion and icon were skillfully combined to form emoticons.

In Japanese, it is called Yanzi, and the word "Yanzi" stands for face. The word "Yan Zi" actually refers to the use of different words to express the writer's mood.

The traditional prototype started with only one ":)", and then the number of users continued to increase, creating various forms of characters.

:-) Smile

:-(unhappy

; -）wink

-D happy

: Stick out your tongue.

Ah, open your mouth in surprise

The smile of a person wearing glasses

Xc== ou

smile

The traditional western emoji can only be understood by turning the face 90 degrees to the left, so after the spread of emoji, another horizontal emoji was invented (first appeared in Japan): using symbols such as "*", ""and "-"as eyes, and "_" and ". The symbols such as "O" in the middle become mouths, and "_ _ _ _" and other symbols are made to be added to smiling faces as decorations to show richer expressions, such as "-_ ||" for embarrassing faces similar to those in Japanese cartoons, "-_-b" for dripping sweat on the faces of characters, and so on.

@ _ @ Confused

O_O surprised

_ Happy

XD (horizontal view) is now mostly used for laughing happily and opening your mouth.

T_T cried very sadly

-_-b sweating

= _ = "Helpless

=3= Kissing and pouting

^o^/ hug

happy

. _/.# Anger

(= _ =) Meow cat

((Work)) Bear

Orz or O ||| _ lost to you (a hieroglyphic symbol of a person falling in love with the ground, which has many derivative changes, such as: otlot2srooojz).

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