ʚ( ˆ۳ˆ )ɞ

A pair of mirror-image wings frames this face: ʚ (LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED OPEN E) on the left and ɞ (LATIN SMALL LETTER CLOSED REVERSED OPEN E) on the right, just outside the parentheses. Both come from Unicode's IPA Extensions block, the letters made for phonetic transcription; ɞ is the IPA symbol for the open-mid central rounded vowel, and ʚ is the same shape flipped, an ε with its open side closed off. On this site each wing stands on the baseline and is about as tall as a lowercase x, a little over half the height of the parentheses. Its inner side, facing the bracket, is one smooth curve, while its outer edge is pinched in at mid-height, with a short bar running inward from the pinch, so each wing has an upper and a lower lobe, like the front and back wings of a butterfly. Inside, one space separates each parenthesis from the face. The eyes are two ˆ (MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT), the little hat from ê standing on its own: small and set high, they are the highest marks inside the parentheses, with the same pointed shape as the smiling eyes of ^^. Between them, with no spaces, is ۳ (EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE), the digit three as Persian and Urdu write it. A long stem on its left runs from eye level down to the baseline, leaning slightly so its foot is further right than its top, and at the top two small cups open upward to its right, giving a w with three points along the upper edge. A 3 is the classic puckered mouth of a kiss in Japanese kaomoji, as in (ˆ³ˆ)~♡; here the pucker sits up between the eyes and its stem trails down below. On October 22, 2026, someone on X who posts collections of kaomoji included this face once in a list post, alongside faces framed by ᜊ…ᜊ and by the same ʚ…ɞ, such as ʚ(' ᐜ ' ꩜)ɞ. Send it with a thank-you that comes with a little smooch.