emoticon

See also: emoticón

English

Etymology

Blend of emotion +‎ icon

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊtəˌkɑn/, /əˈmoʊtəˌkɑn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊtɪˌkɒn/
• (MLE) IPA^(key): /ɪ̝ˈmoˑʔiqʰɔ̃n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.
      • [1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times‎^[1], page C13:

        A remark intended humorously is often indicated by the letter G in parentheses, for "grin," or by a sideways happy face built from punctuation marks. Such symbols are known as emoticons.]

      • 2006, Joseph B. Walther, “Nonverbal dynamics in computer-mediated communication”, in Valerie Manusov, Miles Patterson, editors, 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, D. Scott, “Research on the emotions interpreted from emoticons in Japanese cellular telephone email”, in T. Hirashima, U. Hoppe, S. Young, editors, 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, 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).

Derived terms

• assicon
• emoticonic
• emoticonized
• emoticonlike

 

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 (zh) (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)
• Hungarian: emotikon (hu), hangulatjel (hu)
• Indonesian: emotikon (id)
• Irish: straoiseog f
• Italian: faccina (it) f
• Japanese: エモティコン (emotikon), 顔文字 (ja) (かおもじ, kaomoji), 絵文字 (ja) (えもじ, emoji)
• Kazakh: күлегеш (külegeş), өңтаңба (öñtañba), эмотикон (émotikon)
• Korean: 이모티콘 (ko) (imotikon), 통보문그림기호 (tongbomun'geurimgiho) (North Korean)
• Ligurian: facìn, morìn
• Maori: tohukare
• Persian: شکلک (fa) (šeklak)
• Polish: emotikona f, emotikon (pl) m inan, emotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: emoticon (pt) m
• Romanian: emoticon n
• 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

emoji — see emoji

See also

• Emoticons appendix
• emotag
• emoji
• kaomoji

Anagrams

• come into

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English emoticon.

Noun

emoticon m (invariable)

1. emoticon

Anagrams

• metonico

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English emoticon.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.mo.t͡ʃiˈkõ/, /eˈmo.t͡ʃi.kõ/

• Rhymes: -õ
• Hyphenation: e‧mo‧ti‧con

Noun

emoticon m (plural emoticons)

1. emoticon (simple drawing using text characters)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English emoticon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.mo.ti.ˈkon/
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: e‧mo‧ti‧con

Noun

emoticon n (plural emoticoane)

1. emoticon

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	emoticon	emoticonul		emoticoane	emoticoanele
genitive-dative	emoticon	emoticonului		emoticoane	emoticoanelor
vocative	emoticonule			emoticoanelor