( ố_ồ,)

Two tiny slanted strokes, raised at their inner ends like worried eyebrows, give this face its “wait, really?” look. The eyes are ố (LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTE) and ồ (LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND GRAVE), letters from Vietnamese, where ô is a vowel of its own and the extra slanted mark shows the tone of the syllable. On screen, each is a round o wearing a small peaked hat, ^, with one more short stroke above the hat. On the left eye, the acute ´ sits to the upper right of the ^ and climbs toward the right; on the right eye, the grave ` sits to the upper left and climbs toward the left. So both strokes are highest toward the middle of the face, tilted like brows pulled up in worry. (Some fonts put the grave on the right side of the ^ instead, and the pair loses its symmetry.) Between the eyes, with no spaces, is a flat _ (LOW LINE) mouth set a little lower than the bottom of the eyes: no smile, no frown. Right after the right eye comes a comma , (COMMA), tucked in before the closing parenthesis. It starts near the bottom of the eye and dips below it, like a single bead of nervous sweat running down a cheek. There is one space inside the left parenthesis, while on the right the comma sits flush against the closing one. On October 5, 2016, a bot account that automatically posted kaomoji on X (then Twitter) posted this face. Our collection has 29 faces with an ó_ò pair, like (ó_ò), but this is the only one whose eyes are ố and ồ. Send it when something sounds too good to be true, when things haven’t gone the way you were told, or when you want to raise a playful, skeptical eyebrow at a friend.