Shy Kaomoji

Tap a face to copy it: 69 shy kaomoji hiding behind their hands, peeking round a wall, or looking away.

(*ノωノ)Both hands over the eyes6 code pointsReady to copy

69 shy kaomoji. Tap one to copy it.

Hands over the face 12

Behind a wall 14

Eyes shut, cheeks marked 12

Looking down or away 10

Fingers and fists 7

With a word 14

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.

Tips
  • 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.

All 69 shy kaomoji

Hands over the face 12

  • (*/∇\*) Grinning behind both hands
  • (*ノωノ) Both hands over the eyes
  • (*ノωノ)(ノωノ*) Two hiding side by side
  • (*ノдノ) Mouth open behind the hands
  • (*ノ∀`*) One hand up to hide a grin
  • (*ノ▽ノ) Laughing into its hands
  • (/_\) Keyboard only, hands over the eyes
  • (/_\) Flat mouth behind the hands
  • (/ω・\) One eye out between the fingers
  • (/ω\) A slash and a backslash for the hands
  • (〃ノ_ノ) Ditto mark blush beside the hands
  • (/w\) Keyboard only, a w behind the hands

Behind a wall 14

  • (・_| Flat mouth, wall on the right
  • (・ω| The wall on the right
  • (・ω├┬┴┬┴ The fence on the right
  • |)彡 A last bracket slipping out of sight
  • |_.) Keyboard only, one eye at the wall
  • |_・) Flat mouth, watching quietly
  • |ω・) One eye out from behind a wall
  • |ω・)ω・) Two stacked at the same corner
  • |ω・`) One eye out, brow drooping
  • |д・) Small open mouth, caught looking
  • |・ω・) Whole face out, the rest still hidden
  • |彡 Gone: only motion lines at the wall
  • ┬┴┬┴┤(・_├┬┴┬┴ One eye in the gap between two fences
  • ┬┴┬┴┤ω・) Behind a fence of box drawing
Show all 69 shy kaomoji (43 more)

Eyes shut, cheeks marked 12

  • (*-ω-*) Eyes closed, asterisk cheeks
  • (,,-_-,,) Comma cheeks, eyes closed, flat mouth
  • (,,>﹏<,,) Comma cheeks, wavy mouth, squeezed shut
  • (//>_<//) Keyboard only, slashes on each cheek
  • (>///<) Keyboard only, three slashes for the blush
  • (˶>﹏<˶) Double accents for cheeks, wavy mouth
  • (๑>﹏<๑) A swirl on each cheek, squeezed shut. Borrows ๑ from Thai.
  • (⁄ ⁄-⁄ω⁄-⁄ ⁄) Fraction slashes, eyes closed
  • (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄) Fraction slashes across a squeezed grin
  • (〃>_<〃) Ditto marks, eyes squeezed
  • (〃˘ω˘〃) Ditto marks, eyes resting shut
  • (。-_-。) Eyes closed, a dot on each cheek

Looking down or away 10

  • ( . .〃) Eyes down, one ditto mark cheek
  • ( ・・)ゞ Looking aside, hand to the head
  • (*-ω-)ゞ Eyes closed, scratching its head
  • (*μ_μ) Mu for lowered eyes, one cheek mark
  • (._.) Keyboard only, eyes on the floor
  • (´・・ ) Eyes aside under one raised brow
  • (〃_ _〃) Eyes lowered to two short lines
  • (〃 ̄ω ̄〃ゞ The scratching hand takes the bracket
  • (・・ ) Both eyes slid to one side
  • ( ̄▽ ̄*)ゞ Hand behind the head, eyes narrowed

Fingers and fists 7

  • (._.)☞☜ Eyes down, fingers together
  • (>_<)☞☜ Eyes squeezed, fingers together
  • (´・ω・`)☞☜ Index fingers tip to tip
  • (っ. .ς) Eyes down, fists drawn in
  • (っ˘ω˘ς ) Fists to the cheeks, eyes shut
  • ☞☜ Just the two fingers, no face
  • (っ´ω`c) Hands cupped to the cheeks

With a word 14

  • (*ノωノ) 恥ずかしい Hazukashii: shy, embarrassed
  • (*ノωノ) 照れ屋 Tereya, a shy person
  • (/_\) 穴があったら入りたい Wishing for a hole to climb into
  • (/ω\) きゃー Kyā, a cry of surprise or dismay
  • (´・ω・`) もじもじ Mojimoji, fidgeting
  • (〃_ _〃) 照れる Tereru, to be shy
  • |_・) じー Jī, the sound of staring
  • |_・) 人見知り Hitomishiri, shyness with strangers
  • |ω・) こっそり Kossori, stealthily, in secret
  • |ω・) ちらっ Chira, a quick glance
  • |彡 サッ Satt, quickly: ducking out of sight
  • 壁|ω・) Kabe, wall, written on the wall
  • (/ω\) don't look Don't look, in plain letters
  • (・・ ) um Um, in plain letters

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 69 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: each was put together for this page from the parts a kaomoji is made of (brackets, eyes, a mouth, hands, a wall). Some are forms in common use that nobody owns. 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. No entry holds a character with the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt): the two pointing hands are White right pointing index (U+261E) and White left pointing index (U+261C), which do not have it, while the backhand index emoji (U+1F449, U+1F448) do and are left out. The Japanese words come from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: hazukashii, shy, embarrassed, ashamed (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/恥ずかしい); tereru, to be shy (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/照れる); tereya, a shy person (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/照れ屋); mojimoji, fidgeting, restlessly (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/もじもじ); chiratto, glancingly (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ちらっと); jī, the sound of staring (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/じー); kossori, stealthily, in secret (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/こっそり); kabe, wall (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/壁); satto, quickly, suddenly (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/さっと); kyā, an expression of surprise or dismay (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/きゃあ); hitomishiri, shyness, fear of strangers (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/人見知り); ana ga attara hairitai, ashamed and unable to show one's face, literally wanting to enter a hole if a hole is present (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/穴があったら入りたい). "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). "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work