Where it comes from
It mirrors the Japanese banzai cheer, where people raise both arms. The full-width slashes ＼ and ／ are the arms and ^o^ is a smiling face with an open mouth.
When to use it
Use it to celebrate or to cheerfully admit defeat. It is friendly and harmless in casual chat.
Examples
- We won the match ＼(^o^)／
- All my homework is done ＼(^o^)／
Variants to copy
What it is made of
Every character in the face with its Unicode code point — handy if one shows up as a box on a friend's phone.
＼
U+FF3Cfullwidth reverse solidus(
U+0028left parenthesis^
U+005Ecircumflex accento
U+006Flatin small letter o)
U+0029right parenthesis／
U+FF0Ffullwidth solidus