Thumbs Up Kaomoji

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 101 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: 97 one line entries put together for this page from the parts a kaomoji is made of (brackets, eyes, a mouth, and a letter for the thumb), and 4 pieces of text art of several lines, drawn for this page on a character grid with keyboard characters only. Some of the one line entries are forms in common use that nobody owns. Wikipedia's article Thumb signal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_signal, read 2026-09-19) says many keyboard emoticons use the shapes of lowercase b and d to represent a thumbs up sign, that simple versions use a dash for the wrist, -b or =b for the right hand and d- or d= for the left, that many Japanese kaomoji place the thumbs beside a face built from punctuation marks, such as d(＾＾)ｂ or b(~_^)d, and that various instant messaging services use (y) and (n) as a shortcut for the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji. Wikipedia's article Kaomoji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaomoji, read 2026-09-19) says kaomoji are read upright. The labels, groups and order are our own, and so is the use of p and q for a thumbs down. The Japanese words come from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: gujjobu, good job, well done (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/グッジョブ); gū, informal, good, great, cool, from English good, and under another etymology a closed fist in rock paper scissors and by extension a clenched fist (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/グー); ii ne, Internet, a like (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/いいね); naisu, informal, nice (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ナイス); ōkē, OK, all right, fine (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/オーケー); yoshi, all right, OK (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/よし); saikō, the highest, the best (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/最高); kanpeki, perfect (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/完璧); sansei, approval, to agree (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/賛成); gōkaku, passing, as in a test (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/合格); migoto, splendid, excellent (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/見事); jōdeki, well done, a good result (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/上出来); daijōbu, of a person, all right, okay (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/大丈夫). Every character of every one line 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 character. Emoji that default to a picture are left out, which is why Thumbs up sign (U+1F44D) is not here. The thumb is Latin small letter b (U+0062) or Latin small letter d (U+0064) in most entries; in 7 it is the four Malayalam characters U+0D26 U+0D4D U+0D26 U+0D3F (Malayalam letter da, Malayalam sign virama, Malayalam letter da, Malayalam vowel sign i), which spell the syllable ddi. "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). 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), beyond the keyboard's own. "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. "Keyboard only" means every character is printable ASCII. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work