emoticon

See also: emoticón

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Blend of emotion +‎ icon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊtəˌkɑn/
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊtɪˌkɒn/

Noun

emoticon (plural emoticons)

1. A graphical representation of a particular emotion of the writer, used especially in SMS, email, or other electronic communication.
   1. A graphic made up of text characters to represent such emotion; a smiley.
      • 2006, Joseph B. Walther, “Nonverbal dynamics in computer-mediated communication”, in Valerie Manusov and Miles Patterson, editor, The SAGE Handbook of Nonverbal Communication, →ISBN, page 470:

        In a 4 by 2 experimental procedure, :) ;) :( or no emoticon were inserted alternately in simulated e-mail message mock-ups

      • 2007, M. Yanagisawa, M. Kobayashi, Y. Kato, S. Kato, and D. Scott, “Research on the emotions interpreted from emoticons in Japanese cellular telephone email”, in T. Hirashima, U. Hoppe, and S. Young, editor, Supporting Learning Flow through Integrative Technologies, →ISBN, page 271:

        The range of interpretations was surprising broad, for instance the emoticon (-.-) had 16 possible interpretations

   2. An image or graphic icon used to represent such emotions; an emoji.
      • 2007, Loren Abdulezer, Susan Abdulezer, and Howard Dammond, Skype for Dummies, →ISBN, page 61:

        In addition to placing emoticons by clicking icons in the pop-up panel shown in Figure 4-2, you can enter the text representation in your text chat window. For example, to show the image of the emoticon with sunglasses, you enter (cool).

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), 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
• Galician: emoticona f
• Georgian: სიცილაკი (sicilaḳi)
• German: Emoticon (de) n
• Hebrew: רִגְשׁוֹן m (rigshón), פַּרְצוּפוֹן (he) m (partsufón)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: emotikon m
• Slovene: smeško m, čustvenček m
• Spanish: emoticón (es) m, emoticono (es) m
• Swedish: smilis (sv) c, smilgubbe (sv) c, smajlis (sv) c, emotikon c

See also

• Emoticons appendix
• emotag
• emoji
• kaomoji

Anagrams

• come into

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English emoticon.

Noun

emoticon m (uncountable)

1. emoticon

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English emoticon.

Noun

emoticon m (plural s)

1. emoticon (simple drawing using text characters)