Text faces, emoticons, Unicode faces, emojicons, emotes, kaomoji, Japanese emoticons, and other names are categories and names for different text-based emoticons that can be used to create facial expressions from text. The facial expressions can be created using a keyboard or copy and pasted from the web. This page contains a list of text face emoticons that you can copy and paste. Some emoticons use keyboards that most Western keyboards do not have access to. For example, kaomoji is technically what most people are referring to when they say “Japanese emoticons”. Kaomoji are text-based emoticons that are crafted by utilizing Japanese and other 2-byte characters. Western keyboards don’t have default or easy access to complex characters from different languages unless an app or program is used. English and other similar language keyboards are limited to specific letters and punctuation marks; However, Japanese keyboards can be used to create abstract 2-byte characters and emoticons.