How it works
These 69 shy kaomoji hide: behind two hands, behind a wall, or behind shut eyes. Tap one and it is copied. Seven need only a keyboard, (/_\) and (>///<) among them.
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Find a face, tap it
Tap a tile and the face is on your clipboard. The groups go by how the face hides: hands over it, a wall in front, eyes shut, eyes down or aside, then fingers and fists. The last group adds a word. Search reads the labels: wall finds 17, finger poke finds 4, and head scratch finds the 4 with ゞ for a hand.
Words on a shy or embarrassed kaomoji
The glosses are Wiktionary's. 恥ずかしい, hazukashii, is shy, embarrassed and ashamed in one word. 照れる is to be shy, and a 照れ屋 is a shy person. もじもじ is fidgeting, and じー is the sound of staring. 穴があったら入りたい is the idiom: wanting to enter a hole, if there is one.
- The hands in (*ﾉωﾉ) are Halfwidth katakana letter no, twice. (/ω＼) builds them from a slash and a fullwidth backslash.
- The poked fingers ☞☜ are White right pointing index and White left pointing index. Neither is on Unicode's emoji list.
- |彡 and ☞☜ are the shortest at 2 code points; Short keeps 27. Everyday characters hides one, (๑>﹏<๑), whose cheeks are Thai digit one.
Questions and answers
What does (*ﾉωﾉ) mean?
Too embarrassed to look. The two ﾉ are hands held over the eyes, ω is the mouth and the asterisk is one flushed cheek. (/ω・＼) is the same pose with one eye out between the fingers.
What does |ω・) mean?
Someone peeking round a wall. The bar is the wall, and half a face shows past it: one eye and an omega mouth. 17 faces here have a wall. With an arm raised in greeting, the face is on the wave page.
How do you type the shy finger poke without emoji?
With ☞☜, two pointing hands from Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols block that are not on its emoji list. Put a face in front, as in (´・ω・`)☞☜ or (._.)☞☜. Search finger poke for all four.
What is the difference between a shy and a blushing kaomoji?
Where the eyes go. This family files each face once: cheek marks on a face that looks at you make a blush, and a face that hides, shuts its eyes or looks away is shy. Add a sweat drop and it is nervous.