Undocumented Emoticons in Gmail Chat

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Undocumented Emoticons in Gmail Chat

Emoticons are a simple way to disambiguate text messages and to add a human touch using a minimum amount of characters. While Gmail Chat supports many emoticons, the full lists of emoticons that can be used is much bigger. TKHere tried various combinations and found some undocumented emoticons in Gmail Chat:

In the screenshot above, you can see a diabolic creature (}:-)), a crab (V.v.V), a wince(>.<), a broken heart (</3), a kiss (:-x) and a mustache (:{).

These emoticons only work in the new version of Gmail and can be disabled in the chat section from the settings (note the cool permalink).

Meanwhile, the Japanese Gmail started to support emojis, pictograms popularized by i-mode mobile phones. "These images can be used as placeholders or icons to identify a link or other elements in your page. There are emoji of common use such as airplane or a train and there are some that may indicate emotions, sun, moon phases and more," explains The Wireless FAQ.

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Andy Wong said on February 26, 2008 2:39 PM PDT:

Sinographs of Kanji (Chinese character) originally evolved from graphics thousands years ago, and had become abstraction of graphics to represent objects and actions etc.

Now Japanese go back to the root, and use graphics again, in the ego system of computing devices like mobile and web.

Anyway, we are going to have to learn another fashionable language as it is going popular. What a fun.

Matt said on February 26, 2008 4:16 PM PDT:

you forgot the piggy!
:(:)

Anonymous said on February 26, 2008 7:09 PM PDT:

Chintu,

Do you have any information from your Google contacts if they still have a team working on the Google Talk Desktop Client? Are they ever going to update the client? Should I consider moving to Yahoo messenger again?

Ionut Alex Chitu said on February 27, 2008 11:35 AM PDT:

@Anonymous:
Apparently, the answer to your question is yes and we'll see a completely new version. I don't when it will be launched, though.

Anonymous said on February 28, 2008 11:39 AM PDT:

Here's an article that lists the various new emoticons.

DS said on February 29, 2008 3:26 PM PDT:

@matt: SHHHHHHH!

Matt said on April 5, 2008 3:15 PM PDT:

and the monkey :(|)

Cheyenne said on May 12, 2008 7:05 PM PDT:

You for got the rock out sign too, \m/

Anonymous said on June 8, 2008 8:35 AM PDT:

The monkey and the rock out sign don't work.

Anonymous said on June 8, 2008 11:12 AM PDT:

You also forgot the BELL!!!

+/'\

Anonymous said on June 9, 2008 5:09 PM PDT:

Everything but the bell works.

Anonymous said on June 10, 2008 10:58 AM PDT:

All of the ones said work:
:(:)
:(|)
+/'\
\m/

RebeccaBecca said on June 17, 2008 4:56 PM PDT:

if the monkey doenst work 4 u, the | in between () is shift \

Anonymous said on June 27, 2008 10:47 AM PDT:

every body 4 got this one::-o

Anonymous said on June 27, 2008 10:48 AM PDT:

:-o

Anonymous said on July 11, 2008 5:09 PM PDT:

:-o is on the list

coreysman said on July 12, 2008 9:57 PM PDT:

there is also this 1 V.v.V

Anonymous said on July 17, 2008 10:59 AM PDT:

there is also a kissie face :-* or :-x

Anonymous said on August 9, 2008 11:32 AM PDT:

is there just a cow not a cowbell a cow?

connor said on August 13, 2008 8:34 PM PDT:

ya i want a cow cows rule woo!!!!!!

Anonymous said on September 17, 2008 5:39 PM PDT:

you can also do :* which makes the kiss 2

Anonymous said on October 1, 2008 2:48 PM PDT:

yeah a cow would be cool!

I want a cow said on October 8, 2008 7:40 AM PDT:

Cow

Anonymous said on October 16, 2008 1:17 PM PDT:

Does anyone know how to make a duck?

Anonymous said on October 24, 2008 12:04 PM PDT:

I don't know how to make a duck - but i wold love to. i love ducks! i also agree with the cow. they should definitely do more animals.

Anonymous said on October 24, 2008 3:58 PM PDT:

you can kinda make a cow if you go to the normal, boring smileys, and do the one that makeas a pig. It sort of looks like a cow. :(:)

Teelin said on October 25, 2008 12:13 PM PDT:

you forgot the monkey :(|)

Anonymous said on October 26, 2008 9:52 AM PDT:

how about :P and :D ??

Taylor said on October 28, 2008 1:56 PM PDT:

WHAT ABOUT THE RADIO THING A MAGIN?

Julie Kim said on October 29, 2008 4:38 PM PDT:

radio is /m\

Anonymous said on November 1, 2008 9:40 PM PDT:

I think there should be more emoticons

GMAIL ROX said on November 1, 2008 10:25 PM PDT:

same w/ the one above!!^

Rebo said on November 7, 2008 7:59 PM PDT:

the radio is:\m/
the monkey is so cool! its: :(|)

Anonymous said on November 11, 2008 7:47 PM PDT:

There's a piece of poo, but I don't know how to make it.

Anonymous said on November 14, 2008 4:38 PM PDT:

I WANNA COW!

Anonymous said on November 15, 2008 3:24 PM PDT:

You forgot the radio
\m/

Anonymous said on November 15, 2008 10:03 PM PDT:

I WANNA COW, DUCK, AN GECKO!!!!!! lol

Anonymous said on November 16, 2008 5:50 PM PDT:

hey found a robot!

Anonymous said on November 16, 2008 5:51 PM PDT:

i think there should be a frog and a cow and a i wanna know how to make a pice of poo.

brad said on November 18, 2008 12:14 PM PDT:

there IS a poo! i'm trying to find it! someone just sent it to me!

Anonymous said on November 19, 2008 9:42 PM PDT:

i think there should be more animals and others

Brittaney said on November 22, 2008 11:50 AM PDT:

I WANT POOP!!!!

Anonymous said on November 25, 2008 8:03 PM PDT:

COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said on November 28, 2008 6:39 AM PDT:

robot [:|]

Anonymous said on December 1, 2008 3:20 PM PDT:

OMG THIS ROX~~~

koolieo said on December 4, 2008 12:19 PM PDT:

the robot is freakin awesome

Anonymous said on December 5, 2008 8:59 AM PDT:

dude, you all are incredible.
reading your comments and using your
emoticons just made my day :)

Anonymous said on December 6, 2008 12:45 PM PDT:

cool.... i can make the devil!!!! it really works:

}:) it looks awesome

Anonymous said on December 8, 2008 3:12 PM PDT:

these r so cool!!
how do u make the one where one is hugging the other one??

Anonymous said on December 11, 2008 3:14 PM PDT:

I love all these new ones. you should do the >.<

Anonymous said on December 13, 2008 4:01 PM PDT:

I am trying to do that stupid poop too!
:{
:(:)
:(|)
:)
:(
:'(
;)

Anonymous said on December 13, 2008 8:11 PM PDT:

WHERE IS THE HUGGING ONE!!!!

Simon said on December 15, 2008 3:01 PM PDT:

kerby <(**<)

Anonymous said on December 28, 2008 9:02 PM PDT:

you forgot the BBC!!! *<====8*

Anonymous said on December 29, 2008 7:35 AM PDT:

plllzzzz people! find more!!! u spelled kirby wrong.... it's KIRBY!!! hehe sorry

Anonymous said on January 2, 2009 1:15 PM PDT:

how do u do the 1 where 2 ppls r hugging each other?!?!

Anonymous said on January 10, 2009 11:48 AM PDT:

u 4got the }:-)

Dean said on January 13, 2009 4:46 PM PDT:

i dont know how to make poop.... i mean it is so weird but so awesome....

Koco, also an angry anonymous often.. :P said on January 13, 2009 6:21 PM PDT:

U can't make the poop or the huggy 1's cuz those r just for uh... um... ur emails? ya that's it.... like i really want the sparkles.....

Ani said on January 14, 2009 5:00 PM PDT:

o ya and don't 4get the broken heart

Ani said on January 14, 2009 5:01 PM PDT:

ok thats weird it knows my name

Ani said on January 14, 2009 5:03 PM PDT:

i absolutely loveeeeeeeeeee the robot!!
where is the poop??

Anonymous said on January 17, 2009 4:28 AM PDT:

GMAIL EMOTICONS ARE CUTE AND I LOVE THEM........

Anonymous said on January 24, 2009 8:37 AM PDT:

half of these dont work

Anonymous said on January 24, 2009 8:38 AM PDT:

is there a cow?

Lacey monson said on January 25, 2009 8:28 AM PDT:

How do you do the sparkles? or the poop?

Koco }:-) said on January 29, 2009 2:18 PM PDT:

UGH like i said b4, u can't make the poop!!!!! bcuz it is just sumthing u can use in mssg

Hannah said on January 31, 2009 10:58 AM PDT:

i love all these! the robots awesome!

Andrea said on February 4, 2009 9:02 AM PDT:

I think the poop should be available for chat!!

Anonymous said on February 4, 2009 4:25 PM PDT:

heres a robot! [:|]

Anonymous said on February 5, 2009 7:23 AM PDT:

I also would like the poop chat

Katie B said on February 7, 2009 8:00 PM PDT:

You do the poop, ~@~ which is the squigly line, the at symbol, and then the squigly line again. AWESOME!!!!!

Anonymous said on February 16, 2009 9:54 AM PDT:

COWWWW!!! I WANNA COW! :P \O.o/
(><)
/_|_\

Anonymous said on February 16, 2009 9:55 AM PDT:

:-|

makes an evil dude.

Anica said on February 16, 2009 7:24 PM PDT:

poop= ~@~

Tammy said on February 16, 2009 9:32 PM PDT:

POOOOOOP ~@~ AND U FORGOT THE KISSY ONE!!!!! KISSY ONE= :*

Kenzie said on February 17, 2009 1:01 PM PDT:

TERD!! LOL

Anonymous said on February 19, 2009 3:59 PM PDT:

Hey Everyone Forgot about the (devil)= }:)

Anonymous said on February 19, 2009 6:17 PM PDT:

HERES A SPANISH MAN :{ yup its kewl

Anonymous said on February 19, 2009 6:18 PM PDT:

hey wanna know how to make a stick figure? its like this O->-< yup and glasses are like this \-O-O-/

noodle said on February 24, 2009 2:18 PM PDT:

how do u do the angle???????

noodle said on February 24, 2009 2:21 PM PDT:

and what about the hugging one?

Anonymous said on February 26, 2009 1:14 AM PDT:

here is my poop

(*)~

Anonymous said on February 28, 2009 2:27 PM PDT:

POOP: ~@~ there now use it!!!

Leah said on March 1, 2009 5:19 PM PDT:

this isnt exactly emoticons but
*text* will make the text inside starts bold
_text_ will make text in italics
try it =)
[:|] in the 4th style makes a hippo
in all the others its a robot
thank you for the poop...my frined has wanted that one 4 a while

Anonymous said on March 3, 2009 2:23 PM PDT:

:) = normal smile :{ = mushtache guy ;)= wink :-o = clueless guy :( = sad face :-/ = clueless guy B-)= sunglass smile :'( = crying :P = toungue :D = big smile :-x = kiss x-( = evil guy :-| = clueless guy }:-)= evil guy :(:) = pig :(|)= monkey V . v . V = crab \m/= rock or music <3= heart +/'\ = bell crab = V.v.V moustache man :{ POO ~@~ \m/ is rock on

Anonymous said on March 3, 2009 7:58 PM PDT:

hey ya dudes forgot homer!!! im like insulted. homer~ (_8^(|)

CJ*theHippie* said on March 5, 2009 4:30 PM PDT:

ummmmmmmmm i want to know how 2 do alll of em!

Anonymous said on March 5, 2009 5:45 PM PDT:

Hey, does anyone have more Google chat emoticons? Please write it here if you do! Thank you! :)

Anonymous said on March 5, 2009 5:50 PM PDT:

I know a lot of emoticons! If you really want to know more, please tell me!

PhilArt said on March 5, 2009 8:27 PM PDT:

What about poop guy, forget not poop ~@~

Anna said on March 6, 2009 3:23 PM PDT:

I NEED MORE EMOTICONS PLZ SOMEONE

Anonymous said on March 7, 2009 10:39 PM PDT:

Wow ppl I found another one:
it's a bell see:
+/'\ like that

Neel said on March 10, 2009 8:02 PM PDT:

woah guys! What about mr. robot here? :[|]

Neel said on March 10, 2009 8:04 PM PDT:

wait i did that wrong. [:|]

Anonymous said on March 14, 2009 10:31 AM PDT:

guys i knew poop b4 all u ppl
~@~ any1 know snowman

gmail said on March 16, 2009 8:28 PM PDT:

Poop : ~@~

is there a butterfly??

Anonymous said on March 17, 2009 3:41 PM PDT:

ther is a butter fly just not a gmail animated thingy
}{ ---seeeeeee?

Anonymous said on March 21, 2009 6:04 PM PDT:

omg! i love emoticons!!!!

Anonymous said on March 22, 2009 12:38 AM PDT:

Actually no I think from what ones are on the email list are the same for chat... I think the google people are having a blast driving us nuts trying to figure out the code combo's -_-'

Here are all the ones that work for gmail chat that have been found so far that are not mentioned in the list they give you in the chat box

Poo: ~@~
Robot: [:|]
Crab: V.v.V
Broken Heart: < / 3
Pig: :(:)
Monkey: :(|)
Cow Bell: +/'\
Radio or Rock out: \m/
Mustache Man: :{
Evil: }:) or }:-)
Smiley with heart eyes: either :* or :x

I have even heard of some people knowing the key codes for the cell phone and the microphone... my therory is that all the emoticons on gmail email can be used in chat ... now all we have to do is figure all of them out -_-" :(

Anonymous said on March 22, 2009 12:55 PM PDT:

Poop is this!
~@~
simple as that

Anonymous said on March 26, 2009 8:54 AM PDT:

FREAKING AWESOME

Anonymous said on April 6, 2009 12:49 PM PDT:

How do you make the car?????

Anonymous said on April 9, 2009 10:34 AM PDT:

~@~ is the poop

Anonymous said on April 10, 2009 9:17 AM PDT:

I want the huggy people !!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said on April 10, 2009 9:18 AM PDT:

in the boxy smileys you can make a cool dude

\m/>.<\m/

Damira78 said on April 11, 2009 9:52 AM PDT:

you forgot somemore like :(:) the pie the :(|) the monkey ~@~ the poop

Anonymous said on April 11, 2009 2:59 PM PDT:

u all keep saying the same thing over and over!!!! get a life!!!

Michaela said on April 18, 2009 3:25 AM PDT:

OK this is awkward...................... why do you keep saying poop? I mean don't you think you would be getting tired of it right now?

Anonymous said on April 20, 2009 6:51 AM PDT:

V.v.V = crav

Emma said on April 20, 2009 3:20 PM PDT:

and the robot [:|]

Anonymous said on April 30, 2009 2:15 PM PDT:

the bursting wine glass.... how?!?!?!

Anonymous said on May 2, 2009 7:50 PM PDT:

Can you use the new emojis in chat?????

Anonymous said on May 3, 2009 3:15 PM PDT:

COOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Anonymous said on May 3, 2009 8:06 PM PDT:

wow u all r awkward ... who cares about poop i hhavta ipck it up outside after my dog..andmy cat..and my hamster AGH@!!!!

Anonymous said on May 5, 2009 2:18 PM PDT:

you mother

Anonymous said on May 6, 2009 3:54 PM PDT:

i found the cow i just forget wat it was,, its cute though!!

:)

Anonymous said on May 10, 2009 2:42 PM PDT:

PLEEZ SEND AS MANY EMOTICONS AS POSSIBLE TO THIS WEBSITE I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said on May 12, 2009 5:26 PM PDT:

how do you do the pie?

Anonymous said on May 19, 2009 4:05 PM PDT:

how do u make a creasent moon?

Anonymous said on May 20, 2009 2:34 PM PDT:

people. please get a life.

resveratrol supplement said on May 23, 2009 4:34 AM PDT:

Google emoticons are a simple way to show your emoticons to other people.
i really love emoticons,its so funny and interesting.

Anonymous said on May 23, 2009 8:48 AM PDT:

V.v.V:(|):(:)[:|]~@~\m/+/'\}:) :{ :*

Anonymous said on May 23, 2009 5:30 PM PDT:

u guys should get a life well... i know emticons r kool but i wouldnt spend the whole day lookin for 1!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nicholas said on May 29, 2009 4:56 PM PDT:

_(||)(##) my cell fone

Anonymous said on May 29, 2009 8:45 PM PDT:

Says the person who read through all of these to write a comment.

;)
:D
:P
:-o
:'(
:\
:(|)
[:|]
~@~
V.v.V
\m/
+/'\
}:)
:(:)
:{
:*

Anonymous said on May 31, 2009 12:23 PM PDT:

it's a bee hive not poo

Anonymous said on June 4, 2009 12:00 AM PDT:

it's gotta be poop. those arent bee's they're flies going around the poop.

Anonymous said on June 4, 2009 7:49 AM PDT:

no ~@~ is poop cuz those r flies flying around it

Anonymous said on June 6, 2009 9:44 AM PDT:

poop

~@~

Anonymous said on June 10, 2009 11:46 PM PDT:

~@~ is poop. how do u do the hugging people and the umbrella????

Curly said on June 13, 2009 5:19 PM PDT:

Ugh!! This is soo difficult! I cant find any new ones! Everyone keeps saying the same ones over and over again!!!
I really wanna know:
the snowman
crab (which is not V.v.V, cuz thats a lobster)
coffee,martini & lemonade
umbrella
and more!

Anonymous said on June 21, 2009 5:38 PM PDT:

i think that there should be a thing i on that tells you everything all the ones out there!!!! like how was i gonna figure out how to make all this stuff!!!!!!

accioweasley said on June 22, 2009 7:12 AM PDT:

Okay guys. On another blog, we think that the hugging ones aren't out yet, but they are making them because everyone loves them. There's someone who says that there's a cow, but they forgot how to do it. Let's focus on that. K?

Anonymous said on June 24, 2009 5:47 PM PDT:

There's also the rock out guy: \m/_(>.<)_\m/

I'm sad the emo guy doesn't work: (//_-)

Anonymous said on July 1, 2009 12:08 PM PDT:

the cow is :(:)

jenny said on July 2, 2009 6:01 PM PDT:

poois like this:
~@~

jenny said on July 2, 2009 6:02 PM PDT:

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jenny said on July 3, 2009 11:24 AM PDT:

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