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  2. Kaomoji - Wikipedia

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    Linguist Ilaria Moschini suggests this is partly due to the kawaii ('cuteness') aesthetic of kaomoji. These emoticons are usually found in a format similar to (*_*). The asterisks indicate the eyes; the central character, commonly an underscore, the mouth; and the parentheses, the outline of the face.

  3. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.

  4. Miscellaneous Symbols - Wikipedia

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    Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.

  5. Zalgo text - Wikipedia

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    Zalgo text, also known as cursed text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy . Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence of an eldritch deity, Zalgo ...

  6. Symbol of Chaos - Wikipedia

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    The Symbol of Chaos (also known as the Chaos Star) originates from Michael Moorcock 's Elric of Melniboné stories and their dichotomy of Law and Chaos. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. The symbol has been adopted in role-playing games such as Warhammer and Dungeons & Dragons, as well as modern occult ...

  7. Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    Produce the symbols using a text editor or word processor rather than a graphics editor. In order to display or print these symbols, a device must have one or more fonts with good Unicode support installed, and the document (Web page, word processor document, etc.) it is displaying must use one of these fonts.

  8. At sign - Wikipedia

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    At sign. The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £ 2 per widget = £14), [1] now seen more widely in email addresses and social media platform handles. It is normally read aloud as "at" and is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign .

  9. Help:Entering special characters - Wikipedia

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    Hold Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + U and type up to eight hex digits, then release Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + U. Type Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + U, then type up to eight hex digits, then type ↵ Enter. In LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org and Inkscape, for example, only the second method works. In GTK only the third method works.