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  • Checked October 2026

Dab Emoticon

Dab emoticon copy and paste: tap ヽ( •_)ᕗ, a keyboard dab like <o/ or a drawing, and it is copied.

Dab Emoticon

ヽ( •_)ᕗDab, facing right7 charactersReady to copy

45 dabs. Tap one to copy it.

One-line dabs 14

Lenny dabs 5

Stick-figure dabs, keyboard only 5

Dab text art 7

Closest emoji: there is no dab emoji 5

Dab combos 9

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How it works

Unicode has no dab emoji, so a dab emoticon is built from text: ヽ( •_)ᕗ hides its face in one bent arm and throws the other out straight. Here are dabs facing both ways, drawings and the closest emoji.

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The two arms of a dab

Wikipedia describes the dab as leaning into the crook of one bent arm while the other arm goes out straight. The straight arm here is ヽ, a Japanese repeat mark, or ﾉ for a dab facing left. The bent arm is ᕗ, a letter of the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, or its mirror ᕙ. Between them sits half a face: a parenthesis, one eye and a mouth.

With a keyboard only

\o> is a backslash, a small o and a greater-than sign: straight arm, head, bent arm. <o/ faces left.

  • Three drawings use dots where spaces would be, so they hold their shape in a narrow box.
  • ᕗ and ᕙ need a font for Canadian syllabics; a device without one shows an empty box.

Questions and answers

How do you make a dab emoticon?

Put half a face between a straight arm and a bent one: ヽ( •_)ᕗ. The mark ヽ is the arm thrown back, ( •_) is one eye and a mouth, and ᕗ is the elbow. No US keyboard has ᕗ, so copy it here.

How do you dab with emoticons on a keyboard?

Type a backslash, a small o and a greater-than sign: \o>. For a dab facing left, type a less-than sign, o and a slash: <o/. Each is a three-character stick figure.

Dab emoji copy and paste: is there one?

No. No emoji is named for the dab, and CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, has no dab or dabbing. The closest are Sneezing face, which goes into an elbow as a dab does, and Flexed biceps for the bent arm.

What is a dabbing emoticon?

A text face doing the dab, the gesture of dropping the head into one bent arm with the other arm straight out. Wikipedia records it as a playful or triumphant gesture since 2014.

All 45 dabs

One-line dabs 14

  • ᕙ( _)ﾉ Facing left, head down and face hidden
  • ᕙ(_- )ﾉ Facing left, eye shut
  • ᕙ(_^ )ﾉ Facing left, a smiling eye
  • ᕙ(_• )ﾉ The dab, facing left
  • ᕙ(_• )ﾉ ヽ( •_)ᕗ One each way, back to back
  • ヽ( -_)ᕗ Facing right, eye shut
  • ヽ( >_)ᕗ Facing right, eye squeezed shut
  • ヽ( ^_)ᕗ Facing right, a smiling eye
  • ヽ( •_)ᕗ Dab, facing right
  • ヽ( •_)ᕗ !! With a shout
  • ヽ( •_)ᕗ ヽ( •_)ᕗ Two in step
  • ヽ(_ )ᕗ Head down, face all the way into the elbow
  • ヽ( •_)ᕗ dab With the word
  • *dabs* ヽ( -_)ᕗ Said out loud, between asterisks

Lenny dabs 5

  • ヽ( ͡- ͜ʖ)ᕗ A Lenny dab, eye shut
  • ヽ( ͡~ ͜ʖ)ᕗ A Lenny dab with a wink
  • ヽ( ͡° ͜ʖ)ᕗ A Lenny dab: one eye and the nose still showing
  • ヽ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ)ᕗ A Lenny dab, eye wide open
  • ヽ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ)ᕗ A Lenny dab, eye smiling

Stick-figure dabs, keyboard only 5

  • <o/ The same dab facing left
  • \o/ ... \o> Hands up, then the dab
  • <o/ \o> Two stick figures, back to back
  • \o> Head o, one arm thrown back, the other bent: a dab facing right
  • \o> \o> \o> Three in a row
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Dab text art 7

  • Dab padded with dots Dots where the spaces would be, so a box that eats spaces cannot bend it. 3 columns wide.
  • Dab with a body Six lines: a long straight arm, the head in the bent one, a square body. 9 columns wide.
  • Stick figure dab Three lines: arms, body, legs. 3 columns wide.
  • Stick figure dab, facing left The mirror image. 3 columns wide.
  • Three dabs padded with dots Three in a row, padded with dots. 11 columns wide.
  • Two dabs, back to back One facing each way. 7 columns wide.
  • The word DAB, five lines tall The word in five lines of # signs, padded with dots. 12 columns wide.

Closest emoji: there is no dab emoji 5

  • Flexed biceps U+1F4AA. One bent arm and nothing else. Emoji 0.6.
  • Man dancing U+1F57A. CLDR files it under dance. No dance emoji bends an arm over the face. Emoji 3.0.
  • Person facepalming U+1F926. A hand across the face, though not the crook of an arm. Emoji 3.0.
  • Sneezing face U+1F927. The closest face: Wikipedia says a dab looks like someone sneezing or coughing into an elbow. Emoji 3.0.
  • Woman dancing U+1F483. Filed under dance too, one arm up. Emoji 0.6.

Dab combos 9

  • Aced the test Memo, then man dancing.
  • Birthday dab Birthday cake, then woman dancing.
  • Dab for the camera Camera with flash, then flexed biceps, then sneezing face.
  • Dab, as near as emoji get Flexed biceps, then sneezing face. A bent arm next to the face that goes into it.
  • Goal, then dab Soccer ball, then goal net, then man dancing.
  • Level cleared Video game, then sneezing face, then flexed biceps.
  • School dance Woman dancing, then man dancing, then school.
  • School is out Backpack, then woman dancing, then sun.
  • Trophy dab Trophy, then man dancing.

How this list was compiled: Unicode has no dab emoji: in the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0, no emoji name has the word dab in it and no CLDR search word is dab or begins with it. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). The bent arm ᕗ is U+1557 Canadian syllabics fo and its mirror ᕙ is U+1559 Canadian syllabics fa; scripts are from Scripts.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt). What a dab is, and that it looks like sneezing into an elbow, is from Wikipedia, Dab (dance) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance), CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. Every text dab, every drawing and every combo name is this site's own work; the three-character stick figures are forms in common use that nobody owns. All sources were read on 2 October 2026. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text faces and drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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