Kaomoji ⇔ Emoji Converter: turn (^^) into 😊 and 🥺 back into (´•̥ω•̥`), a whole message at a time

Japanese chats are full of kaomoji, faces built from characters like (^^) or (´・ω・`). Most of the world uses emoji instead. I wanted a tool that swaps one for the other across an entire message, in either direction, so I added a Kaomoji ⇔ Emoji Converter to Omikuji Tools. Paste text, press Convert, copy the result.

Kaomoji ⇔ Emoji Converter: kaomoji in the message are replaced with emoji, and each result links to its meaning

A small, hand-picked table

I also run a kaomoji dictionary site with about 37,000 entries, and I deliberately did not bring them over. The converter works from a table I matched by hand: 72 feelings and occasions (happy, laughing, pleading, shy, thank you and so on), with 517 kaomoji and 224 emoji between them. Each row is a feeling, not a one-to-one character mapping, so (T_T), (;_;) and (´;ω;`) all land on 😢, and 😢 can come back as any of them.

Faces that are not in the table

Kaomoji are endlessly remixed, so a table alone would miss most of them. Anything in brackets that looks like a face is read by its parts: eyes, mouth, tears, sweat, and the half-width katakana words people attach to them. Results from the table are underlined with a solid line; guesses get a dotted one, so you can see which is which and tap a guess to pick something else.

Features

  • Auto-detects the direction, or force Kaomoji → Emoji / Emoji → Kaomoji
  • Tap any converted part to swap in another candidate of the same feeling, or rotate them all at once
  • Skin tones (👍🏽), gendered sequences (🙇‍♀️) and variation selectors count as the same feeling; ASCII emoticons like :) XD <3 orz are converted too
  • Every emoji links to its meaning page on emoji.omikuji.dev, and every feeling links to more kaomoji on kaomoji.omikuji.dev
  • Your text is processed in the browser and never sent to a server

👉 Kaomoji ⇔ Emoji Converter — English and Japanese.

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