My Favorite Expressive Japanese Emoticons (Smileys, Facemarks)

Japanese people use emoticons, especially on SNS, blog, or email. Especially, women often use them. Though I'm a man, I use them a lot.


Japanese Smileys (Emoticons)
http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/



My Favorite Expressive Japanese Emoticons are as follows.

I'm happy. / I'm having fun! / Amazing! / Delicious!
(・∀・)
(*´∀｀*)
ヾ( 〃ω〃)ﾉ
(*╹◡╹*)
(≧▽≦)
ლ(╹◡╹ლ)
(ノ´∀｀)ノ
(≧∀≦)
(人*´∀`*)


Hi! / Yes./ Bye. / I agree. / I have a question.
(・∀・)/
(╹◡╹)ﾉ

suggest, advice.
ヾ(ﾟДﾟ )
(*゜▽゜)b

I'm surprised. / Unbelievable!
(ﾟДﾟ)
w(゜0゜)w
∑(￣□￣;)
(・Д・)
Σ(ﾟﾛﾟ屮)屮
Σ(・Д・)

I'll try.
(≧д≦)q

Why? / I wonder...
？(∵)
？(･ω･)
？(･_･)

I'm sorry. / Could you please...?
m(．_．)m
<(_ _)>
(*_ _)人

I'm excited!
(*ﾟ∀ﾟ)=3

etc.
(･ｗ･)
┌|∵|┘
(・x・)

How to Write in Japanese

Japanese Writing < About.com
http://japanese.about.com/od/writing/u/Writing.htm



Japanese Punctuation

"。" Fullstop (句点 kuten)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation#Full_stop
We normally add "。" after "です", "ます", "でした" or  "ました".


"、" Comma (読点 touten)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation#Comma