The best known spider kaomoji is /╲/\╭(ఠఠ益ఠఠ)╮/\╱\ and every part of it is borrowed. The legs mix ordinary slashes with ╲ and ╱, the box drawing diagonals U+2572 and U+2571, which sit at a different angle and give each leg a visible joint. ╭ and ╮ are box drawing arcs (U+256D and U+256E) that curve away from the body like the first leg segment. The doubled eyes are ఠ, the Telugu letter TTHA (U+0C20), whose round outline with a dot inside reads as a glaring eye, and 益 is a kanji meaning benefit that kaomoji writers use for a clenched mouth. The Lenny version ( ͡° ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ͡°) simply doubles the famous face's eyes and eyebrows. Most real spider species have eight eyes, so in this set more eyes means more accurate.
وجوه نصية Spider للنسخ
Why four eyes and eight legs
Count the strokes on either side of /╲/\╭(ఠఠ益ఠఠ)╮/\╱\ and you get four, ending in the ╭ and ╮ arcs, which adds up to a spider's eight legs. The eyes are doubled on purpose too. One pair makes an ordinary face; two pairs side by side, as in (ʘʘ益ʘʘ) or (◕◕ ω ◕◕), tip it into something not quite human. /╲/\╭(°°°°°°°°)╮/\╱\ goes all the way to eight. The Kannada letter ಠ (U+0CA0), familiar from the look of disapproval ಠ_ಠ, is a close visual twin of Telugu ఠ, and writers swap the two freely.
Halloween threads, boss fights and bathtub sightings
Most of these get posted in October, under pumpkin photos and costume threads, often next to 🕷 or the web 🕸, both added in Unicode 7.0 in 2014. Gamers reach for the Lenny spider when a cave level or a boss has too many eyes. The friendly ones, /╲/\╭(•‿•)╮/\╱\ and /╲/\╭(^^^^)╮/\╱\, suit someone who actually likes spiders, while 🕷 ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ is for everyone else. The fullwidth ／ and ＼ at the ends of ／╲/\╭( ͡°͡° ͜ʖ ͡°͡°)╮/\╱＼ are wider than ASCII slashes, so that version sprawls further across the line.
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What characters make the legs of a spider kaomoji?▼
A mix of plain / and \ with the box drawing diagonals ╲ (U+2572) and ╱ (U+2571), plus the arcs ╭ and ╮ where the legs meet the body. Because the box drawing strokes are angled differently from the ASCII ones, the legs look bent at the knee.
What is the ఠ symbol in /╲/\╭(ఠఠ益ఠఠ)╮/\╱\ ?▼
ఠ is TTHA, a letter of the Telugu script used in southern India, encoded at U+0C20. Its loop with a dot inside looks like a staring eye, so kaomoji writers repeat it to give the spider extra eyes. Inside the face it carries no meaning beyond its shape.
Why does a spider kaomoji look broken on my phone?▼
Lines with combining marks, like the Lenny eyebrows in ( ͡° ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ͡°), rely on the font placing each mark over the right character. Some apps also lack Telugu glyphs and show empty boxes instead. A simpler line such as /╲/\╭(•‿•)╮/\╱\ uses common symbols and displays almost everywhere.
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