ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ
Happy bear
A cheerful bear for greetings and good news.
kaomoji explained
A small round bear face, three characters wide.
Try Bear Kaomoji
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The short answer
A small round bear face, three characters wide. Cosy messages, mascots and friendly sign-offs.
Background
The ears are ʕ and ʔ, two phonetic letters for pharyngeal and glottal consonants, and ᴥ is a small capital that becomes the snout. Six characters is unusually compact for a recognisable animal.
In conversation
Cosy messages, mascots and friendly sign-offs. Copy the full sequence so its spacing, arms and facial expression remain intact.
More faces to copy
Happy bear
A cheerful bear for greetings and good news.
Bear hug
A compact, cute offer of affection or support.
Delighted bear
Eyes squeezed shut with excitement.
Tiny bear
A minimal bear that fits neatly into short messages.
Table-flipping bear
Cute appearance, chaotic mood.
Realistic examples
“Good night ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ”
“Bear with me ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ”
“Coffee first, everything else after ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ”
Tone & nuance
Cosy, harmless and quietly cute. It reads as friendliness rather than strong emotion, which makes it a comfortable sign-off.
Common questions
A small round bear face, three characters wide. Cosy messages, mascots and friendly sign-offs.
Use the copy button so the entire sequence is captured, including the spaces and the brackets or slashes at each edge. Paste it as plain text: anywhere Markdown is active, backslashes, underscores and asterisks can be read as formatting and silently removed, which is what leaves a kaomoji with one arm or a missing eye.
Cosy, harmless and quietly cute. It reads as friendliness rather than strong emotion, which makes it a comfortable sign-off. Kaomoji suit chats, captions and community posts; in formal writing a short sentence carries the same feeling without asking the reader to decode a face.
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