(੭ु റ̆ ˒̫̮ റ̥)੭ु⁾⁾

The two little marks at the top right, ⁾⁾, are what set this face in motion. They’re SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS, small closing brackets raised about as high as the top of the face, and they trail behind the right hand like the lines a cartoonist draws to show something waving. The hands are ੭ु, a classic raised hand in kaomoji, built from the Gurmukhi digit seven ੭, from the script used to write Punjabi, with the Devanagari vowel sign ु attached below. On screen it’s a rounded curve like the top of a 2 with no base, and a small tail beneath it that curls round to the right. One hand sits just inside the left parenthesis and the other just outside the right one. The eyes are both റ (MALAYALAM LETTER RRA), from the Malayalam script of southern India: rounded arches open at the bottom, their feet flicking slightly outward, like the smiling eye ◠ stretched taller. Each eye has its own accent. The left one has a small breve ̆ (COMBINING BREVE) above its right shoulder; the right one has a tiny ring ̥ (COMBINING RING BELOW) under its right foot. Between them is the mouth. A small half ring ˒ (MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED RIGHT HALF RING), open on the left, floats at mid-eye height, and a little below the bottom of the eyes a tiny ω-shaped ̫ (COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW) sits on the little cup ̮ (COMBINING BREVE BELOW), making a soft, rounded mouth. On June 12, 2016, someone on X (then Twitter) who posted kaomoji made with unusual characters shared six faces of their own at once, under the label “homemade special kaomoji,” and this was one of them. Our collection has 10 faces with ੭ु hands and 143 with ⁾⁾ motion lines, but this is the only one with റ eyes. Send it to cheer a friend on before an exam or an interview, or when good news has you both bouncing.