Where it comes from
The ¬ (logical "not" sign) draws eyes glancing to the side, and ‿ (the undertie character) is a smiling mouth. It is the grinning cousin of the suspicious face (¬_¬).
When to use it
Use it for inside jokes, playful teasing, light flirting, or hinting at a prank. It can come off as suggestive, so skip it with people you don't know well.
Examples
- I may have hidden your charger (¬‿¬)
- Guess who got us tickets (¬‿¬)
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.
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U+0028left parenthesis¬
U+00ACnot sign‿
U+203Fundertie)
U+0029right parenthesis