((*´꒳` )´꒳`*))

Left eye ´ (ACUTE ACCENT), mouth ꒳, right eye ` (GRAVE ACCENT, the backtick): that trio, ´꒳`, appears twice, once in each face. In each face, the two slanted eyes sit closer together at the top and spread apart toward the bottom, which gives them a soft, relaxed look. What sets the faces apart is the brackets. The face on the left, (*´꒳` ), has a parenthesis on each side; the one on the right, ´꒳`*), has only its closing one. Its eye ´ starts right after the left face's ), so a single ) is all that separates the two, and the right face looks tucked in behind the left one, cheek pressed to cheek. The mouth ꒳ is YI RADICAL JO, one of the radicals of the Yi script of southwest China: three upright strokes of the same height joined at the bottom by two round dips, which leaves the whole thing open at the top, a lot like the w in uwu. Each * sits on the outer side of its face, left of the left face and right of the right one. Read them as blushing cheeks and only the outer cheeks show; the two inner ones are hidden where the faces touch. The only space is inside the left face, between ` and ). One more pair of parentheses, the very first ( and the very last ), wraps both faces, so each end is doubled: (( on the left, )) on the right. Those extra lines can pass for arms squeezing the two together, or for the wobble of a nuzzle. On X, in October 2026, someone described this as the face their sweetheart sends them, with ｷﾞｭｰ♡ (gyuu, a tight squeeze) in front and ｽﾘｽﾘ (suri-suri, nuzzling) after it.