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emoticon

emoticon

See also: emoticón

English

Noun

emoticon ‎(plural emoticons)

A graphical representation, either in the form of an image or made up of text characters, of a particular emotion of the writer.

Synonyms

smiley

Hyponyms

kaomoji

Translations

representation of an emotion of the writer

Armenian: սմայլիկ ‎(smaylik), զմայլիկ (hy) ‎(zmaylik)
Catalan: emoticona (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 表情符號, 表情符号 ‎(biǎoqíng fúhào)
Danish: emotikon (da) n, smiley c
Esperanto: miensimbolo
Finnish: hymiö (fi)
French: émoticône (fr) m, émoticone m, binette (fr) f, frimousse (fr) f
German: Emoticon (de) n
Hebrew: רִגְשׁוֹן m ‎(rigshón), פַּרְצוּפוֹן (he) m ‎(partsufón)

Hungarian: emotikon (hu), hangulatjel (hu)
Irish: straoiseog f
Japanese: 顔文字 (ja) ‎(かおもじ, kaomoji), 絵文字 ‎(えもじ, emoji)
Persian: شکلک (fa) ‎(šeklak)
Polish: emotikona f, buźka (pl) f, uśmieszek (pl) m inan, emotikon (pl) m inan
Portuguese: emoticon (pt) m
Romanian: emoticon
Russian: сма́йлик (ru) m ‎(smájlik), эмотико́н (ru) m ‎(emotikón), смайл (ru) m ‎(smajl)
Spanish: emoticón m, emoticono (es) m
Swedish: smilis (sv) c, smilgubbe (sv) c, smajlis (sv) c, emotikon c

Usage notes

In contexts with image-based emoticons, emoticon often refers specifically to image-based glyphs, while smiley refers to text-based ones.

See also

Emoticons appendix
emotag

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English emoticon.

Noun

emoticon m ‎(invariable)

emoticon

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English emoticon.

Noun

emoticon m (plural emoticons)

emoticon (simple drawing using text characters)