The muzzle
ㅅ ᆺ
A Hangul letter borrowed for its shape. It is the one thing separating a rabbit from ᴥ, which gives you a bear or a dog.
Rabbits, ears and the ㅅ mouth
Bunny Kaomoji
Almost every bunny kaomoji is the same trick twice: a ㅅ mouth and, optionally, a pair of ᐢ ears. Learn those two characters and you can turn any face on this site into a rabbit without looking anything up.
(•ㅅ•)
Quick answer
Which one should you use?
(•ㅅ•) is the standard bunny kaomoji. The mouth is ㅅ, a Hangul letter used purely for its shape — a small three-stroke muzzle that says rabbit where ω would say cat and ᴥ would say bear. Adding ᐢ either side, as in (ᐢ•ㅅ•ᐢ), gives it upright ears and is the difference between a generic small animal and an unmistakable bunny.
Copy and paste
20 bunny kaomoji
Every face is plain text. Tap one to copy it, then paste it wherever you are typing — it travels as ordinary characters, not as an image.
(•ㅅ•)
Plain bunny
The baseline. Two dots and the ㅅ muzzle.
(´• ㅅ •`)
Soft bunny
Accents relax the eyes; the spacing widens the face.
(｡•ㅅ•｡)
Round-cheeked bunny
Full-width dots read as cheeks.
(ᐢ•ㅅ•ᐢ)
Bunny with ears
The ᐢ characters are upright ears. This is the unambiguous one.
(ᐢ ˆ ㅅ ˆ ᐢ)
Happy eared bunny
Curved eyes with ears. Content, not alert.
(=˃ᆺ˂=)
Excited bunny
Equals signs as whiskers, ᆺ as a wider muzzle.
(・ㅅ・)
Neutral bunny
Full-width dots turn the smile into a stare.
(*•ㅅ•*)
Blushing bunny
Asterisks either side of the face.
( ˘ ㅅ ˘ )
Sleepy bunny
Both eyes closed; the widest spacing here.
(◕ㅅ◕)
Wide-eyed bunny
Large round eyes above a small muzzle.
(≧ㅅ≦)
Squeezed shut
Eyes closed by delight.
(◔ㅅ◔)
Peeking bunny
Part-filled eyes give it a sidelong look.
(๑•ㅅ•๑)
Cheeky bunny
Thai characters as rounded cheeks.
(◍•ㅅ•◍)
Padded bunny
Circled dots give it weight.
( ･ㅅ･)ﾉ
Waving bunny
The ﾉ is a raised paw.
(*´ㅅ`*)
Shy bunny
No eyes at all. Just accents and a muzzle.
(ᐢ°ㅅ°ᐢ)
Startled bunny
Degree signs as small alarmed eyes, ears up.
(ᐢ๑•ㅅ•๑ᐢ)
Full kawaii bunny
Ears and cheeks together — the most decorated here.
(='.'=)
Classic text rabbit
ASCII only, from long before kaomoji spread west.
(\_/)
Bunny outline
The ears alone, drawn as a slash pair. Usually the top line of a taller drawing.
How they are built
The parts these faces are made of
Kaomoji are assembled rather than drawn. Once you can see the components, you can adjust any face on this page instead of hunting for a different one.
Ears
ᐢ ⌒ /) (\
ᐢ is Canadian syllabics and stands upright either side of the face. Slash pairs give floppier ears.
Eyes
• ˘ ◕ ◔ ≧ ≦ °
The same eye set as any cute face — the muzzle is doing all the species work.
Cheeks
๑ ◍ ｡ *
Optional padding either side. Adding them makes the bunny look young instead of alert.
Before you paste
Getting them to arrive intact
Paste as plain text
Markdown and rich-text editors treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting. A face that loses an ear or a cheek was parsed rather than pasted.
ㅅ is the whole trick
Swap the mouth of any cute face for ㅅ and it becomes a bunny. This is faster than searching for a specific face and it works with every eye pair on this site.
Check the fallback font
ㅅ needs a font covering Hangul and ᐢ needs Canadian syllabics. Both ship by default on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, but a very old system may show a box for the ears.
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Faces with a full write-up
Some of these have their own page covering where the face came from and how its meaning has shifted.
Questions
Bunny Kaomoji FAQ
What is the bunny kaomoji?
(•ㅅ•) is the standard one, and (ᐢ•ㅅ•ᐢ) is the version with ears. The mouth character ㅅ is what makes it read as a rabbit; without it the same face is simply a generic cute face.
What does ㅅ mean in a kaomoji?
Nothing linguistically — it is a Hangul letter, siot, used entirely for its shape. Its three short strokes make a small pointed muzzle. That is enough to say rabbit, where ᴥ says bear or dog and ω says small animal of no particular kind.
How do you make bunny ears in text?
Use ᐢ either side of the face for upright ears, as in (ᐢ•ㅅ•ᐢ). For floppier ears use a slash pair — (\_/) is the classic outline. ᐢ is a Canadian syllabics character chosen, like ㅅ, purely for its shape.
What is the difference between bunny and cat kaomoji?
The mouth and the whiskers. Bunnies use ㅅ and upright ᐢ ears; cats use ω or ᴥ with equals signs or carets as whiskers, as in (=^･ω･^=). Both share the same eyes, so the muzzle is the only part that decides the animal.
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