Happy Kaomoji

Tap a face to copy it: 94 open-mouthed happy faces, with a triangle, an upside-down A or an o.

Happy Kaomoji

(^▽^)Caret eyes, triangle mouth: the plain one5 code pointsReady to copy

94 happy kaomoji. Tap one to copy it.

Triangle mouth 19

Upside-down A mouth 9

Small wa and wide grins 13

Round and square mouths 11

Dimples and cheek swirls 7

With a peace sign 4

No brackets 8

With a word 23

Next step Squeeze the eyes shut: laughing faces Grinning face and the other smile emoji

How it works

Every happy kaomoji here has an open mouth and its arms down: 94 faces in eight groups. Tap one and it is copied. Nine need only a keyboard, (^o^) among them.

Read the full guide

Pick a face, tap it

Tap a tile and that face is copied. Groups go by the mouth: a triangle, an upside-down A, a small wa or a wide grin, then round and square mouths. Then come dimples, four with a peace sign, eight without brackets and 23 with a word. Search reads the labels: relieved finds three faces, smug three, birthday two, glasses one.

What the mouths are

▽ is White down-pointing triangle, U+25BD, in 31 faces. ∀ is For all, U+2200, from the Mathematical Operators block, in 17. ヮ is Katakana letter small wa, in 14, and the widest grin, ᗜ, is a Canadian syllabics letter. Wikipedia's List of emoticons files (^o^), (^○^) and (＾◇＾) under Happy.

Tips

😀 is Grinning face, U+1F600, an emoji by default, so it is not here. Smile emoji has it.
^o^ is the shortest at three keyboard characters. Add brackets and a v for a peace sign: (^o^)v.
For good news after a close call, search relieved. (´▽｀) よかった says yokatta, thank goodness.

Questions and answers

What does (^o^) mean?

Happy. Wikipedia's List of emoticons files (^o^) in a row glossed Happy, beside (^○^), (＾◇＾) and )^o^(. Read the carets as arched eyes and the o as an open mouth. It needs only a keyboard.

How do you type a happy kaomoji on a keyboard?

Open bracket, caret, small letter o, caret, close bracket: (^o^). Use a zero for a taller mouth, (^0^), or a capital D for (^D^). Leave the brackets off for ^o^. The Keyboard only chip shows all nine that need nothing else.

What is the difference between a happy and an excited kaomoji?

On this site a happy face has an open mouth and its arms down. Both arms up makes it excited, a closed mouth makes it a smile, and eyes squeezed shut make it laughing. The split is ours.

What does yatta mean in Japanese?

Wiktionary gives やった, yatta, as hurrah, yay, I made it. Seventeen faces here carry a Japanese word, among them わーい, wāi, yay, and 嬉しい, ureshii, happy or glad. Search japanese to see them all.

All 94 happy kaomoji

Triangle mouth 19

(^∇^) Nabla mouth, a maths sign for a grin
(^▽^) Caret eyes, triangle mouth: the plain one
(^▿^) Small triangle mouth: a smaller grin
(°▽°) Degree sign eyes, wide awake
(´∇｀) Slanted eyes over a nabla, mellow
(´▽｀) Soft slanted eyes: relieved and glad
(ˊ▽ˋ) Small accent eyes, slanted soft
(ᵔ▽ᵔ) Small curved eyes, a gentle grin. Borrows ᵔ from Phonetic Extensions.
(•▽•) Bullet eyes, triangle mouth
(⊙▽⊙) Circled dot eyes, thrilled
(⌐■▽■) Dark glasses and a grin
(⌒▽⌒) Arc eyes, arched with joy
(╹▽╹) Two short bars for eyes, a neat grin
(●▽●) Solid black eyes, button bright
(◕▽◕) Big glossy eyes, triangle mouth
(◠▽◠) Half circle eyes, beaming
(・▽・) Small dot eyes, grinning anyway
(＾▽＾) Fullwidth carets, set wider apart
(￣▽￣) Flat macron eyes, pleased with itself

Upside-down A mouth 9

(^∀^) Caret eyes, upside-down A mouth
(°∀°) Degree eyes, upside-down A: delighted
(´∀`) Slanted eyes, upside-down A: an easy laugh
(•∀•) Bullet eyes, upside-down A
(⌒∀⌒) Arc eyes, upside-down A: all is well
(◕∀◕) Big glossy eyes, upside-down A
(・∀・) Dot eyes, upside-down A: that is good
(ﾟ∀ﾟ) Sound mark eyes, upside-down A
(￣∀￣) Macron eyes, upside-down A: smug glee

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Small wa and wide grins 13

( ﾟヮﾟ) Sound mark eyes, small wa: upbeat
('ヮ') Apostrophe eyes, small wa
(^ᗜ^) Caret eyes, wide Canadian syllabics mouth. Borrows ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
(^ヮ^) Small katakana wa for a mouth
(^ワ^) Full size wa: the same mouth, wider
(°ヮ°) Degree eyes, small wa: bright
(´ヮ`) Slanted eyes, small wa: fondly pleased
(ˊᗜˋ) Small accent eyes, wide syllabics mouth. Borrows ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
(ᵔᗜᵔ) Curved eyes, wide syllabics mouth. Borrows ᵔ from Phonetic Extensions and ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
(•ᗨ•) Bullet eyes, a rounder syllabics mouth. Borrows ᗨ from Canadian Aboriginal.
(•ヮ•) Bullet eyes, small wa
(◕ᗜ◕) Glossy eyes, wide syllabics mouth. Borrows ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
(◕ヮ◕) Big glossy eyes, small wa

Round and square mouths 11

(^Д^) Cyrillic de: mouth as wide as it goes
(^○^) White circle mouth, perfectly round
(^。^) Ideographic full stop: a tiny ring
(^ロ^) Katakana ro for a square mouth
(^ㅂ^) Hangul pieup for a boxy grin. Borrows ㅂ from Hangul.
(＾◇＾) Fullwidth carets, diamond mouth
(^0^) A zero for a taller, louder mouth
(^D^) Capital D, a grin lying on its side
(^o^) Small letter o: the keyboard classic
(⌒o⌒) Arc eyes over a small o
(◠o◠) Half circle eyes over a small o

Dimples and cheek swirls 7

(๑^▽^๑) Thai digit one for a swirl on each cheek. Borrows ๑ from Thai.
(๑•ヮ•๑) Cheek swirls, bullet eyes, small wa. Borrows ๑ from Thai.
(◦^▽^◦) White bullets for dimples
(｡^▽^｡) Halfwidth full stops for dimples
(｡•ヮ•｡) Dimples, bullet eyes, small wa
(｡◕∀◕｡) Dimples, glossy eyes, upside-down A
(｡^o^｡) Dimples either side of a small o

With a peace sign 4

(^o^)v Keyboard only, with a peace sign
(^▽^)v A letter v for a peace sign
(・∀・)v Dot eyes and a peace sign
v(^ヮ^) Peace sign held up on the left

No brackets 8

^ᗜ^ Wide syllabics mouth, no brackets. Borrows ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
^∀^ Upside-down A, no brackets
^▽^ Triangle mouth, no brackets
^ヮ^ Small wa, no brackets
^ㅂ^ Hangul pieup, no brackets. Borrows ㅂ from Hangul.
^0^ Zero mouth, no brackets
^o^ Three keyboard characters
)^o^( Brackets turned outwards for round cheeks

With a word 23

(^ᗜ^) 大喜び Great joy: ōyorokobi. Borrows ᗜ from Canadian Aboriginal.
(^∀^) 嬉しい Ureshii: happy, glad
(^▽^) ありがとう Arigatō: thank you
(^▽^) わーい Wāi: yay
(^ヮ^) お誕生日おめでとう Otanjōbi omedetō: happy birthday
(^ヮ^) ハッピー Happī: happy, borrowed into katakana
(°▽°) 楽しみ Tanoshimi: something happily awaited
(´∀`) 楽勝 Rakushō: a piece of cake
(´▽｀) よかった Yokatta: thank goodness
(ᵔ▽ᵔ) うきうき Ukiuki: buoyantly, cheerfully. Borrows ᵔ from Phonetic Extensions.
(⌒▽⌒) 幸せ Shiawase: happiness
(◕ヮ◕) 楽しい Tanoshii: fun, enjoyable
(・∀・) 元気 Genki: lively, in good spirits
(￣∀￣) ほくほく Hokuhoku: pleased with oneself
(￣▽￣) ご機嫌 Gokigen: in a good mood
(^∀^) congrats Congrats, in small letters
(◠▽◠) good morning Good morning, beaming
(´▽｀) happy Friday Happy Friday, relieved
(^O^) happy birthday Happy birthday, keyboard only
(^o^) thank you Thank you, keyboard only
(^o^) おめでとう Omedetō: congratulations
(^o^) やった Yatta: hurrah, I made it
(^▽^) yay Yay, in small letters

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 94 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement, put together for this page from parts: a pair of eyes and an open mouth, with the arms left down. The best known forms are in common use and nobody owns them. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, read 2026-09-19) files (^o^), (^○^), )^o^( and (＾◇＾) in a row glossed Happy, beside a capital O form that this page keeps only with a word because the family allows one face per spelling whatever the case, (＾▽＾), (・∀・) and (´∀`) in a row glossed Laughing, cheerful, ( ﾟヮﾟ) as Happy, upbeat and ^ㅂ^ as Happy; the build script checks each of those against the fetched page. The labels, groups and order are our own. What is left to other pages follows this family's own table and is nobody else's rule: a closed mouth is a smile, both arms or fists up is excited, eyes squeezed shut is laughing, one eye shut is a wink, marked cheeks are a blush. 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. The mouths are White down-pointing triangle (U+25BD) in 31 entries, For all (U+2200) in 17, Katakana letter small wa (U+30EE) in 14, Canadian syllabics carrier thu (U+15DC) in 6, and a letter o, a capital O or a zero in the keyboard ones. None of them has the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt); the grinning emoji, U+1F600 and U+1F603, are different characters and are left out with every other emoji. The Japanese words come from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: wāi, yay (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/わーい); yatta, hurrah, yay, I made it (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/やった); yokatta, thank goodness (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/よかった); ureshii, happy, glad (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/嬉しい); tanoshii, pleasant, delightful, fun, enjoyable (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/楽しい); shiawase, happy, happiness (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/幸せ); happī, informal, happy (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ハッピー); ukiuki, buoyantly, cheerfully (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/うきうき and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/浮き浮き); gokigen, cheery, good mood (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ご機嫌); hokuhoku, pleased with oneself (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ほくほく); tanoshimi, joy, that which one happily anticipates (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/楽しみ); genki, energetic, in a good mood, lively (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/元気); ōyorokobi, great joy, delight (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/大喜び); rakushō, easy victory, piece of cake (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/楽勝); omedetō, congratulations (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/おめでとう); arigatō, thank you (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ありがとう); otanjōbi omedetō, happy birthday (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/お誕生日おめでとう). "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). "Keyboard only" holds every entry made of nothing but printable ASCII. "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work