✧( ˃ ˓◞•̅ )

The dot with a bar over it is • (BULLET) carrying the combining mark ̅ (COMBINING OVERLINE). The bar is wider than the dot and always sits higher than the dot, but where exactly the bar lands depends on the font doing the drawing: some fonts set it squarely on top of the dot, while others push it up and to the right, so that the bar floats clear of the dot. After the dot come two spaces before the closing parenthesis, which leaves a wide gap on that side, and when the bar gets pushed to the right, it hangs above that gap. On the other side, one space after the opening parenthesis, is ˃ (MODIFIER LETTER RIGHT ARROWHEAD), a small character whose top is roughly level with the tops of the parentheses; its bottom stays above the top of the dot, so the whole of ˃ sits higher than •. Read ˃ and • as the eyes and you get one eye squeezed shut, its point aimed to the right, and one eye open and round, and the two eyes aren't at the same height either. Between the eyes, lower than ˃, come ˓ (MODIFIER LETTER CENTRED LEFT HALF RING) and ◞ (LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT CIRCULAR ARC). ˓ is a small half ring that opens on its right side, at about the same height as •. ◞ is an arc whose left end drops to near the bottoms of the parentheses; from there it curves upward as it goes right, and its right end stops just short of • without touching it. Take ˓ and ◞ together as the mouth and you get a smile whose two sides don't match: a tiny curl on the left, a long arc sweeping up on the right. Just outside the opening parenthesis, on its left with no space in between, is ✧ (WHITE FOUR POINTED STAR), four points around a hollow middle. On X, this kaomoji came at the very end of a post announcing that a goal someone had been working toward for a long time had finally been reached.