Comfort kaomoji are tiny two-character scenes: one face reaches out, the other is having a bad time. In (´･ω･)ﾉ(._.`) the arm is ﾉ, the halfwidth katakana letter NO (U+FF89), whose single slanting stroke reads as a hand stretched over the neighbour's head. (｡´･ω･)ﾉﾞ ﾖｼﾖｼ adds ﾞ, the halfwidth voiced sound mark, as motion lines, then spells yoshi yoshi, the soothing phrase a Japanese speaker murmurs while patting a child or a pet. Other faces bring something along: a cup of tea drawn with the kanji 旦, a roll of paper 🧻 for the tears, an umbrella ☂ held over a gloomy face. Unlike a hug, the comforter usually stays inside its own brackets, which keeps the gesture gentle rather than clingy. Send them after bad news, a breakup, a rejected application or a long shift.
وجوه نصية Comfort للنسخ
The arm that does the patting
Nearly every face here follows one layout: a calm face on the left, an upset one on the right, and a single stroke between them that does the touching. The halfwidth ﾉ is the favourite because it slopes down from left to right and lands neatly on the next head. Its full-width form ノ works as well but takes more room. The ヾ at the start of ヾ(・ω・`)ノ(T_T) is the katakana voiced iteration mark, borrowed here as a waving forearm. The faces on the right are the same tearful ones found in our crying and sad sets, (╥ω╥) and (´；ω；`) among them, cast this time as the friend being looked after.
Saying it is okay, with or without Japanese
Some lines carry a word instead of an object. ドンマイ (donmai) is Japanese sports slang built from the English "don't mind", called out to a teammate who has just missed; (´-ω-`)ﾉ ドンマイ moves it into a group chat after a lost game or a shaky presentation. 大丈夫 (daijoubu) means roughly "it's all right" and is one of the most common reassurances in the language. For readers who do not know Japanese, the object faces travel better. (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)ノ🩹 offers an adhesive bandage, an emoji added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, and (・ω・)ﾉ ⌒ 🧸(╯︵╰,) tosses a teddy bear across to someone sulking.
الأسئلة الشائعة
What does (´･ω･)ﾉ(._.`) mean?▼
It is a head pat. The face on the left reaches out with ﾉ and rests its hand on the small, downcast (._.`) beside it. People send it to say there there, or I'm sorry that happened, without writing a long message, and it comes across as kind rather than pitying.
How are comfort kaomoji different from hugging kaomoji?▼
Hugging faces wrap both arms around the reader, like (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ, and suit cheerful greetings as much as sad moments. Comfort faces show two characters, one of them upset, with the other patting, offering tea or holding an umbrella. They only make sense when somebody is struggling.
What does ﾖｼﾖｼ mean in a kaomoji?▼
ﾖｼﾖｼ is yoshi yoshi written in halfwidth katakana. It is what you would hear a Japanese parent say while stroking a child's hair, or an owner while rubbing a dog's head, close to there there in English. Paired with the patting hand in (｡´･ω･)ﾉﾞ ﾖｼﾖｼ, it softens the gesture even more.
Want a bigger set in one place? We collected over 200 kaomoji sorted by mood, including the dead inside faces people ask about most, in cute kaomoji to copy and paste. It also explains why kaomoji sometimes break when you paste them.
