• 72 smug kaomoji

Smug Kaomoji

Tap a face to copy it: hands on hips, narrowed eyes, smirks, hair flicks and schemers.

Smug Kaomoji

<(￣︶￣)>Hands on hips7 charactersReady to copy

72 smug kaomoji. Tap one to copy it.

Hands on hips, chin up 13

Narrowed eyes over a smile 12

Half-shut eyes and smirks 12

Hair flicks and a point at itself 8

Up to something 11

With a word 16

Next step The smirk as an emojiJust happy, arms down

How it works

A smug kaomoji is pleased with itself and wants you to know. The first, <(￣︶￣)>, has its hands on its hips and its chin up. Narrowed eyes, smirks, hair flicks and schemers follow. Tap a face and it is copied.

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Proud kaomoji: hands on hips

The angle brackets in <(￣︶￣)> are elbows. ￣ is a fullwidth macron, an eye half shut, and ︶ is a bracket turned on its side, a mouth with the chin lifted. Thirteen faces stand that way. σ in front is a finger pointing at itself.

Smirk kaomoji and schemers

A smirk needs a lopsided mouth: in (´,_ゝ｀) a comma curls one corner. Up to something is the mischievous kaomoji group, brows drawn down over a grin, as in (｀∀´). None of them has horns.

  • Keyboard only keeps six faces, among them (=v=) and <(-v-)>, typed with nothing but ASCII.
  • Twelve faces say it in Japanese. Wiktionary gives doyagao as a smug, self-satisfied face and ehhen as a triumphant hmph.
  • The side eye (¬‿¬) is on annoyed kaomoji. Half-shut eyes over a plain smile are on smiling kaomoji.

Questions and answers

What does <(￣︶￣)> mean?

Proud of itself. The angle brackets are arms with the hands on the hips, the eyes are half shut and the mouth curves up with the chin lifted. Add えっへん, which Wiktionary gives as a triumphant hmph, and it is boasting.

What is the ≖ in (≖‿≖)?

≖ is a maths sign, U+2256, named ring in equal to: an equals sign with a small ring in the middle. Two of them make narrowed eyes with the pupils showing, which reads as sly or knowing.

How do you type a smug kaomoji on a keyboard?

Equals sign, letter v, equals sign, in brackets: (=v=). For hands on hips put angle brackets outside, as in <(-v-)>. The Keyboard only chip shows the six that need nothing else.

What does ドヤ顔 mean?

Doyagao. Wiktionary defines it as a smug, self-satisfied face. Here it is written beside (￣︶￣), the half-shut eyes with the chin lifted.

All 72 smug kaomoji

Hands on hips, chin up 13

  • <(¯︶¯)> Hands on hips, macron eyes
  • <(´︶｀)> Hands on hips, soft eyes
  • <(˘︶˘)> Hands on hips, eyes closed, basking
  • <(￣ω￣)> Hands on hips, a curly mouth
  • <(￣‿￣)> Hands on hips, a thin curved smile
  • <(￣▽￣)> Hands on hips, laughing at its own joke
  • <(￣ー￣)> Hands on hips, a level smile
  • <(￣︶￣)> Hands on hips
  • «(￣︶￣)» Elbows out wide, both sides
  • ‹(￣︶￣)› Small elbows, hands on hips
  • ┏(￣︶￣)┓ Square elbows, fists on hips
  • <(-v-)> Eyes shut, a small v smile, hands on hips
  • <(^v^)> Happy eyes, a v smile, hands on hips

Narrowed eyes over a smile 12

  • (=‿=) Equals signs for eyes, a thin smile
  • (ಠᴗಠ) A hard stare over a wide smile. Borrows ಠ from Kannada and ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (ᓀ‿ᓂ) Slanted lids from two syllabics. Borrows ᓀ ᓂ from Canadian Aboriginal.
  • (≖ω≖) Narrowed eyes, a curly mouth
  • (≖ᴗ≖) Narrowed eyes, a wider smile. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (≖‿≖) Narrowed eyes, a thin smile
  • (≖⌣≖) The smile character under narrowed eyes
  • (≖▽≖) Narrowed eyes, mouth open in a grin
  • (≖◡≖) Narrowed eyes, a half circle smile
  • (≖ヮ≖) Narrowed eyes, a small open smile
  • (◔ᴗ◔) Eyes rolled up, still smiling. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (－‿－) Eyes shut flat, a satisfied smile
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Half-shut eyes and smirks 12

  • (´,_ゝ｀) A comma curls one side of the mouth
  • (´_ゝ｀) Soft eyes and a hooked nose: oh, really
  • (•‿•́) One brow cocked, the other flat. Borrows ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
  • (ㆆᴗㆆ) Hooded eyes over a smile. Borrows ㆆ from Hangul and ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (￣ᴗ￣) Half-shut eyes, a wide soft smile. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (￣⌣￣) Half-shut eyes, the smile character
  • (￣▿￣) Half-shut eyes, a small triangle mouth
  • (￣◡￣) Half-shut eyes, a half circle smile
  • (￣ヮ￣) Half-shut eyes, a small open smile
  • (￣︶￣) Half-shut eyes, chin lifted
  • (=v=) Equals signs for eyes, a v smile
  • (~v~) Tilde eyes, a v smile

Hair flicks and a point at itself 8

  • (￣︶￣)彡 Hair thrown back with a swoosh
  • ξ(≖‿≖)ξ Curls each side, narrowed eyes
  • ξ(￣‿￣)ξ Curls each side, half-shut eyes
  • ξ(￣︶￣)ξ A curl of hair each side, chin up
  • σ(≖‿≖) Pointing at itself, eyes narrowed
  • σ(￣▽￣) Pointing at itself and grinning
  • σ(￣︶￣) A finger pointing at itself: that was me
  • 彡(￣‿￣) Hair blown back from the left

Up to something 11

  • (•̀‿•́) Brows drawn down, a thin smile. Borrows ◌̀ ◌́ from Combining Diacritical Marks.
  • (◣‿◢) Slanted triangle eyes, a thin smile
  • (◣∀◢) Slanted triangle eyes, an open grin
  • (｀ω´) Brows down, a curly mouth
  • (｀ᴗ´) Brows down, a soft wide smile. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (｀‿´) Brows down, a thin smile
  • (｀∀´) Brows down over a wide grin
  • (｀▽´) Brows down, triangle grin
  • (｀ヮ´) Brows down, a small open smile
  • (òᴗó) Accented o eyes, a wide smile. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (ò‿ó) Accented o eyes, a thin smile

With a word 16

  • (≖ᴗ≖) 流石 Sasuga: just as one would expect. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (≖‿≖) にやにや Niyaniya: with a grin or a smirk
  • (－‿－) にんまり Ninmari: with a complacent smile
  • (￣ᴗ￣) にたにた Nitanita: with a smirk. Borrows ᴗ from Phonetic Extensions.
  • (￣ー￣) 余裕 Yoyū: composure, room to spare
  • (￣︶￣) ドヤ顔 Doyagao: a smug, self-satisfied face
  • (￣︶￣) 当然 Tōzen: naturally, of course
  • <(￣▽￣)> 得意気 Tokuige: with an air of satisfaction
  • <(￣ー￣)> 得意 Tokui: triumphant, proud
  • <(￣︶￣)> えっへん Ehhen: ahem, or a triumphant hmph
  • <(￣︶￣)> 自信 Jishin: self-confidence
  • σ(￣︶￣) 自慢 Jiman: pride, a boast
  • <(￣︶￣)> told you so Told you so, typed out
  • (￣◡￣) too easy Too easy, typed out
  • <(-v-)> nailed it Nailed it, typed out
  • (=v=) heh Heh, typed out

How this list was compiled: The 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, half-shut or narrowed eyes, a smile, angle brackets for arms on the hips, a curl of hair). Some are forms in common use that nobody owns. The labels, groups and order are this site's own. No face here is on another kaomoji page of this site: the side eye stays on the annoyed page, a sparkle beside a smug face on the sparkle page and a wink on the wink page. Horned devils are not here. The Japanese words come from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-30: doyagao, a smug, self-satisfied face (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ドヤ顔); ehhen, ahem, or a triumphant hmph (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/えっへん); niyaniya, with a grin, a smirk (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/にやにや); nitanita, with a smirk (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/にたにた); ninmari, with a complacent smile (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/にんまり); tokui, triumphant, proud (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/得意); tokuige, proud, with an air of satisfaction (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/得意気); jiman, pride, a boast (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/自慢); yoyū, composure, leeway (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/余裕); tōzen, naturally, of course (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/当然); sasuga, as one would expect (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/流石); jishin, self-confidence (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/自信). The Unihan database, version 18.0.0, defines 彡, U+5F61, as hair. 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. Emoji shown as pictures by default are left out. "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. "Keyboard only" means every character is plain ASCII. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work

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