How it works
A creepy emoticon here is a text face with ringed, wide-open eyes over a closed smile, such as (◉◡◉). Others stretch the smile, reach out with both hands or hide a second face inside. Tap one to copy it.
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One mark you can see in each group
Ringed eyes over a closed smile uses characters with a dot in a ring: ◉, which Unicode names Fisheye, or ⊙, Circled dot operator. A smile drawn too wide doubles the undertie under the eyes. A second pair of eyes, or a face inside puts four eyes over one mouth, or a small face where each eye should be.
Creepy Japanese emoticon face, with a sound word
The last group pairs a face with a Japanese sound word, each in the sense Wiktionary gives: じっと is to stare hard, ぞくぞく is with a shiver and にやにや is with a grin.
- Under stacked marks, each mark is a combining character drawn over the eye before it.
- Fangs, ghosts and crossed-out eyes are on Halloween kaomoji.
Questions and answers
How do you make a creepy text face?
Start with two ringed eyes, such as ◉ or ⊙, and put a closed smile between them: (◉◡◉). To go further, double the smile to (◉‿‿◉) or give the face four eyes. None of these characters is on a US keyboard, so copy one here.
What characters are the eyes in a creepy emoticon?
Characters with a dot inside a ring: ◉ Fisheye, ⊙ Circled dot operator, ☉ Sun, ◎ Bullseye and ʘ, the phonetic letter for a bilabial click. ⚆ is White circle with dot right, so both eyes look to one side.
Why does a creepy emoticon show an empty box?
A device with no font for a borrowed character draws a box in its place. The note under each tile says which characters are borrowed and from where: ლ is a Georgian letter and ԅ a Cyrillic one, for example.
What do the Japanese words next to the faces mean?
じっと: staring hard. じろじろ: staringly. ぞくぞく: with a shiver. ぞっと: shuddering. にやにや: with a grin. Each is the sense its Wiktionary entry gives, and the label under the tile repeats it.