emoticon

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Blend of emotion and icon

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA: /əˈmoʊtəˌkɑn/ SAMPA: /@"moUt@%kAn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈməʊtəˌkɒn/

Noun

emoticon (plural emoticons)

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

Synonyms

• smiley

Translations

respresentation of an emotion of the writer

Chinese: Mandarin: 表情符號 (zh), 表情符号 (zh) (biǎoqíng fúhào) Danish: emotikon (da) n., smiley (da) c. Esperanto: miensimbolo (eo) Finnish: hymiö (fi) French: émoticône (fr) f. German: Emoticon (de) n. Hungarian: emotikon (hu)

Irish: straoiseog (ga) f. Japanese: 顔文字 (ja) (かおもじ, kaomoji) Persian: شکلک (fa) (šeklak) Polish: emotikon (pl) m. Romanian: emoticon (ro) Russian: смайлик (ru) (smájlik) m. Spanish: emoticón (es) m., emoticono (es) m.

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

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

emoticon (m) inv.

1. emoticon