Where it comes from
It builds on the Lenny face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), a meme face from internet forums whose eyes use combining marks over ° and whose mouth is ʖ, an IPA phonetic letter. ╰ and つ are the arms, and ──☆*:・ﾟ is a wand shooting sparkles.
When to use it
Use it for cheeky jokes, playful innuendo, or pretending to pull off a sneaky trick. The Lenny face often reads as suggestive, so keep it away from work and people you don't know.
Examples
- Watch me convince mom to order pizza ╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・ﾟ
- Poof, your homework is now my homework ╰( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・ﾟ
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+2570box drawings light arc up and right(
U+0028left parenthesis◌͡
U+0361combining double inverted breve°
U+00B0degree sign◌͜
U+035Ccombining double breve belowʖ
U+0296latin letter inverted glottal stop)
U+0029right parenthesisつ
U+3064hiragana letter tu─
U+2500box drawings light horizontal☆
U+2606white star*
U+002Aasterisk:
U+003Acolon・
U+30FBkatakana middle dotﾟ
U+FF9Fhalfwidth katakana semi-voiced sound mark