( •Θ• )(>Θ<)( •Θ• )　 　ぎゅっ 　 　ʃʃ　　ʃʃ　　ʃʃ ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣

Three round little birds sit side by side on the first line, ( •Θ• )(>Θ<)( •Θ• ), and there isn't a single space between them: twice, the ) of the bird on the left runs straight into the ( of the bird to its right. In each face, the widest character is the beak, Θ. It’s the Greek capital theta, and the bar splitting its ring into a top half and a bottom half looks like the seam of a small closed beak. The two outer birds get a half-width space just inside each parenthesis, which keeps their faces roomy and round, with tiny • bullets for eyes set right beside the beak. The one in the middle has no room at all. Its eyes are > and <, both pointing in at the beak and pressed straight against the parentheses: the face of someone squeezing their eyes shut while the other two lean in from both sides. Off to the right, a little apart, ぎゅっ (gyutt) is a Japanese mimetic word for squeezing tight or hugging hard. On the second line, the feet are pairs of ʃ, the phonetic symbol for the “sh” sound, one pair directly under each bird, their hooked ends like tiny curled toes. The third line is ten ￣, full-width macrons whose stroke sits high in the character cell, so they join into one branch just under the feet, starting a little to the left of the first bird and ending a little past the last. In Japan, a sparrow that fluffs up its feathers against the cold is called a fukura-suzume, a “puffed-up sparrow,” and the word marks winter in haiku. This tiny original AA, only three lines tall, has exactly that look.