Where it comes from
The legs are drawn with slashes and box-drawing diagonals (/╲/\ and /\╱\), the four eyes are the Telugu letter ఠ, and the mouth 益 is the kanji often used for gritted teeth in angry kaomoji. It is one of the longer novelty kaomoji shared on copy-paste lists.
When to use it
Use it for Halloween, bug jokes, or to playfully creep someone out. It is long and a bit unsettling, so skip it in serious or work conversations.
Examples
- There's one on your ceiling /╲/\╭(ఠఠ益ఠఠ)╮/\╱\
- Happy Halloween /╲/\╭(ఠఠ益ఠఠ)╮/\╱\
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+002Fsolidus╲
U+2572box drawings light diagonal upper left to lower right\
U+005Creverse solidus╭
U+256Dbox drawings light arc down and right(
U+0028left parenthesisఠ
U+0C20telugu letter ttha益
U+76CAcjk unified ideograph-76ca)
U+0029right parenthesis╮
U+256Ebox drawings light arc down and left╱
U+2571box drawings light diagonal upper right to lower left