Kaomoji & cute text
Cute kaomoji copy and paste (text faces)
Kaomoji are Japanese-style text faces built from punctuation and letters — (◕‿◕✿), ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ, (˘ ³˘)♥, and the famous shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. They are cute text symbols copy and paste favorites because they stay plain text on every platform.
Click any face above to copy it. Combine kaomoji with hearts, flowers, or color emoji when you want extra mood.
How to copy kaomoji
- Find a face in the grid (happy, sad, shrug, love, table flip).
- Tap once — multi-character faces copy as one string.
- Paste into Discord, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, or email.
- Use the pad to add a heart or star after the face, then copy the line.
Some apps wrap long kaomoji; test in a draft first. Guide covers PNG export if you need an image.
Shrug and other common meanings
The shrugging text emoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ means “I don’t know” or a light joke — distinct from the color 🤷, which can look different on each phone. Lenny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) is cheeky; table flip (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ shows frustration; bear faces feel cozy.
Kaomoji are not stickers. They are Unicode/ASCII art you can search for by name on this site.
Kaomoji on Discord, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Discord and desktop chats handle complex faces well. Mobile Instagram bios may truncate long kaomoji — keep them short. WhatsApp usually preserves them. If a face breaks, a simpler (◠‿◠) or a single emoji is safer.
Related collections
Browse text emoji, hearts, fancy letters, and brackets. Full catalog: home.
Quick hubs: text symbols copy paste · Discord fancy text · shrug emoji · fancy text generator.