（＊’・‘）ノオハヨー＞

The ＞ at the very end is what sends this greeting off: its open side faces the word and its point aims away from the face, the reverse of the familiar message-board layout where a ＜ stands between face and speech pointing back at the speaker. That word is オハヨー, ohayō spelled in katakana with the long mark ー in place of the kana う, so it reads the way it sounds when someone calls it across a room, and it follows the raised hand ノ without a gap. Inside the brackets, the eyes are a right single quotation mark ’ followed by a left single quotation mark ‘, the reverse of the ‘…’ order English uses for a quotation, with the little ・ between them as the mouth; rather than framing it, the pair can look as if it has turned away from it. A single ＊ sits just inside the opening bracket with no partner on the other side.