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Kaomoji

Does this term also cover kaomoji, or just predefined single-character symbols? — Gwalla | Talk 04:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. 顔文字 is pronounced as かおもじ (kaomoji), while 絵文字 is pronounced as えもじ (emoji). The former one stands for emoticon, formed by many other symbols, such as (^_^) or (≧▽≦) stands for a smiling face, while western people may use :-) instead. The later one stands for the Unicode standard emotion characters, such as 🌀 stands for cyclone. -- Yejianfei (talk) 07:35, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Ji = letter => Mo + ji = ? + letter

Ji is letter^[1], so mo adds something to that meaning (art^[2] aparently) so it would translate to 'art letter'. Anyone fluent in japanese care to shed some light?PuercoPop (talk) 13:55, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Chinese (or, in this case, a Chinese borrowing into Japanese) doesn't work that way. One of the many meanings of 文 is "sentence", so if you absolutely have to be literal about it 文字 could be "sentence letter", but in practice the two characters just reinforce each other and the meaning is simply "letter". Jpatokal (talk) 21:50, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

'Sentences' are divided by ideas so could it be 'idea letter'? j/k. Thanks for the reply Jpatokal. PuercoPop (talk) 06:15, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

To clarify, 文 has a meaning that encompasses writing, literature, language, or culture, and 字 has a meaning that encompasses character, word or letter. So the combined phrase would mean character, letter, text or writing character/script. 絵 would be the actual descriptor here. - M0rphzone (talk) 04:18, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

References

Emoji is the transcription of 絵(e)文(mo)字(ji), which is a Japenese word. 絵(e) stands for "picture", and 文(mo)字(ji) stands for "characters" (ideograms) for writing rather than drawing. As a result, 絵(e)文(mo)字(ji) literally stands for "pictorial characters" or "pictogram". --Yejianfei (talk) 07:47, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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[1] ttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AD%97#Etymology_1

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