Where it comes from
The mouth is the Cyrillic letter Д, which looks like an open, yelling mouth; the slanted marks ｀ and ´ are the angry brows. Faces built on Д were a staple of the Japanese board 2channel.
When to use it
Use it to react to small annoyances, bad luck or a friend's teasing. Skip it in work messages, where it can read as genuinely hostile.
Examples
- They ate my pudding again (｀Д´)
- Lag spike right before the boss died (｀Д´)
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+0028left parenthesis｀
U+FF40fullwidth grave accentД
U+0414cyrillic capital letter de´
U+00B4acute accent)
U+0029right parenthesis