Get the idea? Basicallly, for a moment you will be wondering, is there a hair on my screen? And you’re gonna try to wipe it away, except it’s still there. They come in so many different types of shapes, formats and they look so real. It amazed me so much when I saw it the first time.
Now this is something I only saw on the WeChat emoticons. There is no restriction in terms of the size, and for the format, it supports gif animations as well. If we see some emoticons that are interesting enough, we are likely to save it for our future use as well. This means, anyone can add anything as a WeChat emoticon and spread it across different groups. 毛表情 emoticons with hairsĪfter introducing the “Hey-ha” series, which eventually became an official WeChat emoticons, I’ll show you some of the examples of un-official emoticons. Usually for you to express that you’re sorry, or things are out of your control. “Our company gives all the employees one day leave on xmas eve ” Very self-explantory, means you’re on a high mood! It’s amazing how they manage to fit in one face with two hands in a single emoticon, even in the smallest emoticon size, good job. e.g.īasically you don’t want people to take whatever you said too seriously when you use this emoticon. So instead of saying “Just kidding” later, you put this emoticon.
It’s very useful when you wanna pull people’s legs, or something that you might regret. This emoticon is kinda naughty, kinda overly-confident, kinda light-hearted. You can also use it when you wanna show your self-confidence that you’re a smart, sort of a “gotcha” thing. I simply use it all the time! Especially when people get my joke, or when they say the things I expect them to say (such a manipulative bxxch I am right? ? ) (Maybe bcause I’m smart, haha) It’s a great way to give assurance/appreciation to others as well. “Who else wanna play paintball on Sunday?”Īnother emoticon that I JUST LOVE SO MUCH. Basically it means you wanna ask a question, or answer a question, or wanna join an activity (i.e. Once you understand that, it’s not difficult to understand this emoticon. See how different is it when Chinese students are raising their hands? The picture below will explain this difference well enough. I was like, huh, isn’t it obvious that I just wanna ask a question? The first time I realised this was when I wanted to ask a question during our team meeting, everyone looked soo puzzled when I raised my hand like this. This is seriously our way of raising our hand in China (for example, when answering a question at school). I had a major cultural shock when I realised most of the non-Chinese people don’t get this. Apple, please consider adding this to your official range! 2. In fact, when I’m not in WeChat I find it so difficult to express my feelings without using this emoticon. well, you get the idea of how useful it can be. “I totally forgot we’re meeting tonight ” Yes that’s right, each of these emoticons also have a high-resolution version, which proves the high quality! You can use the facepalm emoticon to show your frustration, to express your bad luck, to laugh at yourself, or simply, when you have nothing to say…. For example, Facepalm!! Don’t we all love the facepalm emoticon?! Facepalm See the standard explanation of each of the emoticons below (translated into English by CNGAG girl)Īs you can see, a lot of these emoticons are really useful for day-to-day use. But prior to that, it’s downloadable in a package.
It’s now officially added to the Wechat standard emoticons, that really set this series apart from the rest of the emoticon designs. Here is a quick preview.Ĭan you tell which are the standard iPhone emoticons, and which are from this “Hey-ha” big yellow face emoticons?
The reason this series impressed me the most is because, it’s so compliant with the standard iPhone emoticons, no matter from a color theme, sizing, quality and brand guidelines perspective. “嘿哈”大黄脸表情 Hey-ha big yellow face emoticons So in this article I’d like to introduce 3 series to you guys. I’ve never stopped being impressed by how weird, crazy and funny Wechat emoticons are. It might not be new to many people, Wechat is THE most popular IM+Social Media in China (Imagine Facebook + Whatsapp added together).