Fighting kaomoji come in two kinds: a face squaring up, and the Korean cheer Fighting, meaning come on. Both are here: 83 faces in seven groups, and a tap copies one. The fist ง is a Thai letter.
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Pick a fight, tap it
Tap any tile and the face is on your clipboard. The groups go by what the arms do: fists up, flexing, a punch thrown, a fist pumped as a cheer, arms down, two squaring off, and armed. For a determined kaomoji with no fists, the fifth group has ten. Search reads labels and extra words: gym finds 16, good luck 11.
Borrowed fists and brows
The fists are letters from elsewhere: ง is Thai character ngo ngu, ᕙ and ᕗ are Canadian syllabics fa and fo, و is Arabic letter waw. The slanted brows •̀ •́ are a bullet under a combining accent. Everyday characters keeps the 21 that avoid all of these, with a 9, a q or a capital O for the fist.
Tips
To wish someone luck, 화이팅 (ง •̀ᴗ•́)ง spells the cheer in Korean and ファイト (•̀o•́)و in Japanese.
Gym caption: ❚█══\(•̀皿•́)/══█❚ holds a barbell overhead, and ᕦ(ಠ_ಠ)ᕤ judges your form.
Only two are plain keyboard characters: the jab O=('-'Q) and the sword o=[]:::::::>.
Questions and answers
What does Fighting mean as a cheer?
Wikipedia's article Paiting calls 파이팅, also spelled 화이팅, a Korean word of support or encouragement, borrowed from the English word fighting and often translated as come on or let's go. Japanese has ファイト, faito. The fourth group holds 11 faces for it.
What is the ง in (ง •̀_•́)ง?
Thai character ngo ngu, U+0E07, a letter that happens to look like a raised fist. 29 of the 83 faces use it, and the label under each says Borrows ง from Thai. (9｀･ω･)9 makes the same stance with two nines.
How do I type the flexing arms ᕙ and ᕗ?
Copy them. ᕙ and ᕗ are Canadian syllabics fa and fo, from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, and the tighter ᕦ and ᕤ are tha and tho. 14 faces here use them. ┗(｀皿´)┛ strikes the pose with box drawing corners instead.
ᕦ(ò_ó)ᕤArms curled tighter, accented o eyes. Borrows ᕦ ᕤ from Canadian Aboriginal.
Punch thrown 12
(ง •̀_•́)ง ▮Working the heavy bag. Borrows ง from Thai and ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
ヽ(｀д´)ﾉ┌┛Kick, box drawing for a boot
( •̀_•́)=OStraight right, a capital O for the fist. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(`_´)=OStraight right, nearly keyboard only
(ง •̀_•́)=OOne fist up, one thrown. Borrows ง from Thai and ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(｀д´)≡OFist with speed lines
(｀д´)=O)ﾟ3ﾟ)Punch landing on a cheek
O=('-'Q)Keyboard only: jab out, guard up
(｀д´)=O=O=OThree jabs in a row
ヽ(ò_ó)ﾉ┌┛Σ(°o°)Kick landing on someone surprised
(•̀д•́)つ)°o°)Jab from a hiragana hand. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
O≡(ò皿ó)≡OBoth fists flying
Fighting, the cheer 11
(•̀ᴗ•́)وFist pumped, Arabic waw for the arm. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks, ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions and و from Arabic.
(•̀ᴗ•́)งOne fist up and a smile: you have this. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks, ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions and ง from Thai.
(｀・ω・´)وFist pumped, alert little face. Borrows و from Arabic.
파이팅 (•̀ᴗ•́)وPaiting, the other Korean spelling. Borrows 파 이 팅 from Hangul, ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks, ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions and و from Arabic.
화이팅 (ง •̀ᴗ•́)งHwaiting, the Korean cheer, spelled out. Borrows 화 이 팅 from Hangul, ง from Thai, ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks and ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
(｀・ω・´)9Fist pump with a nine, everyday characters
Fighting (ง ^ᴗ^)งThe cheer in English letters. Borrows ง from Thai and ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
(ò_ó)9Fist pump in six characters
(•̀o•́)وFist pumped, mouth open mid-cheer. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks and و from Arabic.
ファイト (•̀o•́)وFaito, the Japanese cheer, in katakana. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks and و from Arabic.
p(•̀ᴗ•́)qFists clenched at the chest, p and q. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks and ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
(•̀ㅂ•́)Tight grin from Korean letter pieup. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks and ㅂ from Hangul.
(⇀‸↼)Determined, harpoons for brows
(◣_◢)Game face, black triangles for eyes
(｀・ω・´)Determined, with everyday accent marks
o(•̀_•́)oDetermined, fists clenched at the sides. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
o(｀・ω・´)oFists at the sides, everyday characters
(ò_ó)Determined, an accented o for each eye
Squaring off 8
(ง •̀_•́)ง (×_×)One standing, one out cold. Borrows ง from Thai and ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(9｀д´)9 6(｀д´6)Nines against sixes, everyday characters
ᕙ(•̀_•́)ᕗ ᕙ(ò_ó)ᕗTwo flexing at each other. Borrows ᕙ ᕗ from Canadian Aboriginal and ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(•̀д•́)=OO=(•̀д•́)Fists meeting in the middle. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(ง •̀_•́)ง (°o°;)Squaring up to someone who did nothing. Borrows ง from Thai and ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(ง •̀_•́)ง Q(•̀_•́Q)Thai fists against letter Q gloves. Borrows ง from Thai and ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(ง｀д´)ง(°_°)ノQ(｀д´Q)Referee between them. Borrows ง from Thai.
(ง •̀_•́)ง vs ᕦ(ò_ó)ᕤBoxer versus lifter, vs between them. Borrows ง from Thai, ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks and ᕦ ᕤ from Canadian Aboriginal.
Armed 6
( •̀д•́)ﾉ†Raised overhead, the character named Dagger. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(•̀_•́ )}-→Bow drawn, arrow on its way. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(•̀_•́ )つ╋━━Sword held out, box drawing blade. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
(•̀_•́)⚔(•̀_•́)Crossed swords character between two. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks. ⚔ is on the emoji list.
o=[]:::::::>Keyboard only sword, hilt to tip, no face
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 83 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement, put together for this page from parts: a fist or arm (Thai, Canadian syllabics and Arabic letters, the digit 9, the letters o, p, q and O), a pair of slanted brows, a mouth. The best known forms, the two raised Thai fists and the flexed arms of Canadian syllabics, are in common use and nobody owns them. The labels, groups and order are our own. Every character of every entry was looked up in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and must be an assigned, visible character. Names the page states come from that file: U+0E07 Thai character ngo ngu, U+1559 Canadian syllabics fa, U+1557 Canadian syllabics fo, U+0648 Arabic letter waw, U+0300 Combining grave accent, U+0301 Combining acute accent, U+2020 Dagger. The cheer entries carry the words as Wikipedia's article Paiting gives them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paiting, read 2026-09-19): Korean 파이팅 (paiting) and 화이팅 (hwaiting), a word of support or encouragement that derives from a Konglish borrowing of the English word fighting, and the Japanese equivalent ファイト (faito). "Borrows" under an entry names each character from outside the blocks of punctuation, common symbols and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese letters, with its script from Scripts.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt) or, for a Latin or common character, its block from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). A combining accent is shown on a dotted circle. "Is on the emoji list" names each character that has the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt). Emoji proper are left out. "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. Nothing here says how any one device draws an entry. Licence: own work