Shocked eyes
⊙ ◎ ◉ ʘ ☉ ๏ ๐
Circular characters. The heavier and larger the circle, the stronger the reaction reads.
Surprised, startled and lost for words
Shock Kaomoji
Shock in a kaomoji is carried almost entirely by the eyes. A wide circular eye is startled, a small one merely surprised, and the mouth only decides whether the face is silent or making a noise about it.
(⊙_⊙)
Quick answer
Which one should you use?
(⊙_⊙) is the standard shocked kaomoji, and (ﾟдﾟ) is the open-mouthed version. Circular eye characters — ⊙ ◎ ◉ ʘ ☉ — are what read as shock; the wider the circle, the stronger the reaction. Adding an open mouth such as д, ロ or 0 turns silent surprise into an audible gasp.
Copy and paste
20 shock 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.
(⊙_⊙)
Wide eyes
The standard. Circled dots staring straight ahead.
(ﾟдﾟ)
Jaw dropped
The д mouth is hanging open — the loudest here.
(゜ロ゜)
Shocked
ロ is a square open mouth, caught mid-gasp.
(・o・)
Small surprise
The mildest face on this page.
(☉_☉)
Staring shock
☉ has a centre dot, which makes the gaze fix on you.
(ﾟoﾟ)
Open-mouthed
Round eyes and a round mouth — cartoonish.
(⊙﹏⊙)
Worried shock
The wavy mouth adds anxiety to the surprise.
(◎_◎)
Dizzy shock
Double-ring eyes read as reeling.
(ﾟΩﾟ)
Horrified
The Ω mouth is a wide open howl.
(๏_๏)
Bug-eyed
Thai characters as bulging eyes.
(ʘ_ʘ)
Wide stare
ʘ is an IPA click letter — the roundest eye available.
(ʘ‿ʘ)
Unsettling smile
Shocked eyes above a smile; deliberately off.
(◉_◉)
Fisheye shock
Heavy filled circles; the most intense stare here.
(ﾉﾟ0ﾟ)ﾉ
Alarmed
Hands up with an open mouth.
(＠_＠)
Overwhelmed
Full-width at signs read as spiralling eyes.
(°〇°)
Gasping
A large circle mouth between two small eyes.
(ﾟロﾟ)
Startled
The half-width version of the square-mouthed gasp.
(•ﾛ•)
Plain shock
Half-width kana as a small open mouth — the mildest gasp here.
(⊙⊙)
Blank stare
No mouth at all — speechless.
(๐_๐)
Dazed
Thai zeros as vacant eyes.
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.
Open mouths
д ロ 〇 0 o Ω
Turn silent surprise into an audible one. Ω is the widest, and closer to a howl.
Silent mouths
_ ﹏ ‿ (none)
An underscore is speechless; a wavy ﹏ adds worry; leaving the mouth out entirely is the most stunned of all.
Raised hands
ﾉ 」 ＼ ／
Optional. They push the face from stunned towards alarmed and make it read as reacting out loud.
Before you paste
Getting them to arrive intact
Paste as plain text
Markdown and rich-text editors treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting. Underscore mouths are the specific casualty here — they can turn the rest of the line italic.
The underscore is the risk
(⊙_⊙) contains an underscore, which several editors read as the start of italics. If the face arrives as (⊙⊙) with the following text slanted, that is why. (⊙﹏⊙) avoids it entirely.
Width is not guaranteed
Full-width kana like ﾟ and ロ occupy a whole cell while Latin characters occupy half, so a face can look balanced in one app and lopsided in another.
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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
Shock Kaomoji FAQ
What is the shocked kaomoji?
(⊙_⊙) is the standard silent version and (ﾟдﾟ) the open-mouthed one. The circular eyes carry the shock; the mouth only decides whether the face is stunned into silence or reacting out loud.
What does (ﾟдﾟ) mean?
Open-mouthed shock. The д is a Cyrillic letter used purely for its shape — a wide open jaw. It is the strongest surprise face in common use: genuine disbelief, not mild astonishment.
Why does my shocked kaomoji make the text italic?
The underscore. (⊙_⊙) and (◎_◎) contain one, and Markdown treats a pair of underscores as italic formatting, so the mouth vanishes and the following text slants. Use (⊙﹏⊙) instead, which replaces the underscore with a wavy dash.
How do I make a kaomoji look surprised?
Replace both eyes with a circular character — ⊙ ◎ ◉ ʘ or ☉ — and leave the mouth small or absent. Every face on this page is that one substitution applied to an otherwise ordinary kaomoji, which is why the shock set is so easy to extend.
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