Confused
| O.o |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
Facebook
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Popular |
| Updated |
February 2, 2010 |
| Description: The two different sized eyes indicate this person is completely confused. It comes from cartoon animation, where the eyes change sizes back and forth when a character is perplexed. |
| ?:| |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
December 6, 2011 |
| Description: A person with a puzzled blank stare on his face. |
| :s |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
Live (MSN) Messenger
Windows 8 Messaging
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
February 13, 2010 |
| Description: The "s" represents a confused mouth. |
| :-$ |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
ICQ Instant Messenger
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
2007 |
| Description: Inserts a confused emoticon in ICQ; may also mean "embarrassed." |
| o_O |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
Twitch
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
June 27, 2012 |
| Description: Inserts a confused looking robot emoticon in TwitchTV chat, the robot having one big eye and one small eye, indicating confusion; the "o" characters are not case sensitive. |
| =? |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
February 9, 2010 |
| Description: The question mark for a mouth indicates the person does not understand something. |
| :-? |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
WordPress
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
June 23, 2012 |
| Description: A WordPress emoticon that inserts a smiley graphic of a person with a pursed and wrinkled mouth. |
| O.o? |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
August 16, 2010 |
| Description: The "O.o" represents the person's eyes and nose and the "?" is a hand, indicating the person is scratching his head in confusion. |
| :-?? |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
Yahoo! Messenger
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
November 12, 2010 |
| Description: A "hidden" emoticon shortcut in Yahoo! Messenger that shows someone saying, "I don't know." |
| :? |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
WordPress
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Average |
| Updated |
June 23, 2012 |
| Description: A WordPress emoticon that shows a person with a pursed and wrinkled mouth. |
| 〈(゜。゜) |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
March 30, 2012 |
| Description: A guy scratching his head (kaomoji emoticon). |
| ¯\(°_o)/¯ |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
August 5, 2011 |
| Description: One of the more graphic ways to depict someone who's totally out of sorts and has no idea what's going on; shows him lifting up both arms and nonverbally saying, "I don't know." |
| (-_-)ゞ゛ |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
March 30, 2012 |
| Description: Shows a guy scratching his head in confusion. |
| :???: |
Direction |
Text (used as a shortcut) |
| Shortcut |
WordPress
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
June 25, 2012 |
| Description: A WordPress textual shortcut that inserts a confused-looking smiley graphic into a post; inserts the same graphic as if you were to type :? or :-? into the post. |
| (゜д゜??) |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
December 20, 2012 |
| Description: A Kaomoji emoticon that uses question marks and an open mouth to show confusion. |
| :~/ |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
August 27, 2014 |
| Description: A representation of a person with a confused expression on his face, which is evident through the /. |
| (-?) |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
January 10, 2012 |
| Description: Shows the side profile of a person's head with a question mark that indicates confusion; the person has a closed eye represented by the minus "-" character. |
| -.-? |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
December 21, 2011 |
| Description: The question mark indicates confusion, or it can also be interpreted as a hand scratching the person's head. |
| (p_q) |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
January 26, 2011 |
| Description: A confused look of someone who's giving up trying to understand and has a look of hopelessness. |
| ,':( |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
March 30, 2010 |
| Description: This confused person has one eyebrow raised, indicated he is perplexed about something. |
| (@[email protected]) |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
February 1, 2010 |
| Description: The "at" symbols represent perplexed eyes. |
| :-/ |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
Yahoo! Messenger
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
2007 |
| Description: Can also mean perplexed or frustrated. |
| :-Q |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Uncommon |
| Updated |
2007 |
| Description: This emoticon can sometimes be "confused" with the smoking emoticon. |
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__ |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways)
* requires multiple lines
|
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Rare |
| Updated |
November 29, 2010 |
| Description: The blank expression means this person is confused. |
%%
- |
Direction |
Vertical (not tilted sideways)
* requires multiple lines
|
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Rare |
| Updated |
January 16, 2010 |
| Description: The percentage signs represent googly eyes, which indicates confusion. |
| 8-/ |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Rare |
| Updated |
August 20, 2013 |
| Description: Represents a confused look, unsure of what expression to display. |
| 8/ |
Direction |
Horizontal (tilted 90° to the left) |
| Shortcut |
No
|
| Popularity |
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Rare |
| Updated |
August 20, 2013 |
| Description: The confused look is displayed with the slanted mouth. |
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