Editing Emoticon (section)

===Western===
Usually, emoticons in Western style have the eyes on the left, followed by the nose and the mouth. It is commonly placed at the end of a sentence, replacing the full stop. The two-character version <code>:)</code>, which omits the nose, is very popular. The most basic emoticons are relatively consistent in form, but some can be rotated (making them tiny [[ambigrams]]). There are also some variations to emoticons to get new definitions, like changing a character to express another feeling. For example, {{nowrap|<code>:(</code>}} equals sad and {{nowrap|<code>:((</code>}} equals very sad. Weeping can be written as <code>:'(</code>. A blush can be expressed as <code>:"></code>. Others include wink <code>;)</code>, a grin <code>:D</code>, <code>:P</code> for tongue out, and smug {{nowrap|<code>:-></code>}}; they can be used to [[Tone indicator|denote]] a flirting or joking tone, or may be implying a [[double entendre|second meaning]] in the sentence preceding it.<ref name="Dresner & Herring 2010">Dresner & Herring (2010).</ref> <code>;P</code>, such as when [[blowing a raspberry]]. An often used combination is also <code><3</code> for a [[Heart symbol|heart]] and <code></3</code> for a broken heart. <code>:O</code> is also sometimes used to depict shock. <code>:/</code> is used to depict melancholy, disappointment or disapproval. <code>:|</code> may be used to depict a neutral face.

A broad grin is sometimes shown with crinkled eyes to express further amusement; <code>XD</code> and the addition of further "D" letters can suggest laughter or extreme amusement, e.g., <code>XDDDD</code>. The "3" in <code>X3</code> and <code>:3</code> represents an animal's mouth.  An equal sign is often used for the eyes in place of the colon, seen as <code>=)</code>. It has become more acceptable to omit the hyphen, whether a colon or an equal sign is used for the eyes.<ref>{{cite web| url        = http://sourceforge.net/projects/denoser/| title      = Denoser strips noses from text| date = February 21, 2013| publisher  = SourceForge.net| access-date = March 14, 2013}}</ref> One linguistic study has indicated that the use of a nose in an emoticon may be related to the user's age, with younger people less likely to use a nose.<ref>{{cite journal| url         = http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol18/iss2/14/| title       = Do You Smile with Your Nose? Stylistic Variation in Twitter Emoticons| first       = Tyler| last        = Schnoebelen| journal     = University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics| volume      = 18| issue       = 2| year        = 2012| access-date = January 22, 2020}}</ref>

Some variants are also more common in certain countries due to [[keyboard layout]]s. For example, the smiley <code>=)</code> may occur in [[Scandinavia]]. [[Diacritic]]al marks are sometimes used. The letters <code>Ö</code> and <code>Ü</code> can be seen as emoticons, as the upright versions of <code>:O</code> (meaning that one is surprised) and <code>:D</code> (meaning that one is very happy), respectively. In countries where the [[Cyrillic alphabet]] is used, the right parenthesis <code>)</code> is used as a smiley. Multiple parentheses <code>))))</code> are used to express greater happiness, amusement or laughter. The colon is omitted due to being in a lesser-known position on the [[JCUKEN|ЙЦУКЕН keyboard layout]]. The '[[shrug]]' emoticon, {{nowrap|<code>¯\_(ツ)_/¯</code>,}} uses the glyph [[ツ]] from the Japanese [[katakana]] writing system.