ꋧ(గꌂగ)

A tooth-baring grin with eyes squeezed into arches, like someone laughing through clenched teeth because there is nothing else to do. There are no spaces anywhere in it. The eyes are గ (TELUGU LETTER GA), the letter "ga" of the Telugu script, which is used to write Telugu in southern India. On screen each one is a rounded arch, open at the bottom, with its two feet curling slightly inward. The top of the arch pinches into a narrow neck, and from there two strokes split off in a V: a short one to the upper left, and one about twice as long that curves up to the eye's top-right corner. The two eyes are the same character rather than mirror images, so both long strokes flick up to the right. The arches read as eyes squeezed into a smile, and the V on top as eyebrows tensed upward. The mouth is ꌂ (YI SYLLABLE NZUR), a syllable from the standardized Yi script, which is used to write the Yi language of Liangshan in southwest China. It is a U made of two straight uprights joined by a rounded bottom; a crossbar runs across about a fifth of the way down, and from the middle of the crossbar a single line drops to the bottom. The uprights poke a little above the crossbar. Split in two like that, the space under the bar looks like clenched teeth bared in a forced grin. The mouth is about as tall as the eyes, so eyes and mouth sit side by side in one row. Outside the parentheses on the left is ꋧ (YI SYLLABLE ZZYT), another Yi syllable: three upward-pointing chevrons stacked at even intervals, each made of two slanted strokes that don't quite meet at the tip. Together they are about as tall as the eyes, the top chevron level with the top of the eyes and the bottom one level with their lower edge, and they look like the shaky lines a cartoonist draws beside someone trembling with nerves. Only the parentheses reach lower than the eyes and mouth. A bot account on X that automatically posted kaomoji shared this face on February 28, 2014. No other face on our site uses గ. Nine others use ꌂ as a mouth, such as (꒦ˊꌂˋ꒦), and seven of those are angry faces; the only other face with ꋧ is ╮(ꋧ ᆺ ꋧ)╭, where it serves as the eyes. Send it when you're laughing your way through an awkward moment, owning up to a slightly embarrassing slip, or smiling hard so you don't say what you're thinking.