By
Vikrant Agarwal -
April 12, 2012
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The text smiley normally consists of eyes and mouth. Here are some guidelines for creating your own sideways text smileys/emoticons.
- A colon : represents the eyes in smiley
- A closing bracket ) represents the mouth in smiley
- Now, Just put them together to make a basic smiley :)
- All smileys are read left to right, e.g. :) is a smiley face as the mouth curls upwards direction
- A common variation is to replace the colon : eyes for = making =)
Many different variations can be used to create these smileys. Here are some of the examples:
| Icon | Meaning |
| :) | Standard smile |
| :-) | With nose |
| :-E | Buck-tooth |
| >-) | Evil grin |
| :( | Sad or frown smile |
| :-( | Sad with nose |
| :-< | Super sad |
| :P | Sticking tongue out (raspberry) |
| (((H))) | Hugs |
| :-X | Kiss on the lips |
| `:-) | One eyebrow raised |
| :^) | A broken nose |
| :-& | tongue tied |
| E-:-) | a Ham radio operator |
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| Icon | Meaning |
| :-# | With braces |
| :'-) | Happy Crying |
| {:-) | Toupee smile |
| ;) | Winking smile |
| ;-) | Winking smile with nose |
| O:-) | I'm an angel (boy) |
| O*-) | I'm an angel (girl) |
| |-O | Yawn |
| (:-D | Gossip, blabbermouth |
| @>--;-- | Rose |
| @-}--- | Rose |
| =^.^= | Cat |
| O.o | Confused |
| C=:-) | A chef |
(\_/)
(o.o)
(___)0 | A bunny |
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| Icon | Meaning |
| :-! | "Foot in mouth" |
| :-D | Laughter |
| :*) | Drunk smile |
| :@ | Exclamation "What???" |
| :-@ | Scream |
| :-0 | Yell |
| %-( | Confused |
| :-----) | Long nose (Liar!) |
| :-.) | Madonna |
| :-($) | Put your money where your mouth is |
| (:I | An egghead |
| |-O | Yawning |
| :@) | Pig smile |
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Vikrant Agarwal
Vikrant Agarwal is the founder of SmileySymbol.com. When he is not working on blog you can find him climbing mountains.