{"id":76,"date":"2016-03-20T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duchinese.net\/blog-wp\/2016\/03\/20\/22-what-emoticons-are-popular-in-china\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:51:12","slug":"22-what-emoticons-are-popular-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/22-what-emoticons-are-popular-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Most Popular Emojis in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you use emojis\/emoticons when you message your friends? What emojis do you like to use the most?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emoji\/emoticon in Chinese is \u8868\u60c5\u7b26\u53f7 [bi\u01ceo q\u00edng f\u00fa h\u00e0o], or just \u8868\u60c5 [bi\u01ceo q\u00edng] for short. Chinese emojis are a little different than the emojis in the west. You can ask your Chinese friends like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-du-interactive=\"8587d6f06\" class=\"wp-block-du-interactive-example\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, China&#8217;s biggest social network website Tencent QQ published that year&#8217;s emoticon usage statistics.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at what emoticons Chinese netizens like to use the most.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-03-at-1.41.36-PM-1024x489.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1315\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>No.1 \u5472\u7259\/\u9f87\u7259 [z\u012b y\u00e1] &#8211; Grinning Face<p>The grinning face emoticon symbolizes \u201ccourteous\u201d or \u201ccute\u201d, and is commonly used by netizens around the country for greeting each other.<\/p>  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.2 \u6124\u6012 [f\u00e8n n\u00f9] &#8211; Angry Face<p>The angry face is popular among young users, and is reportedly used the most frequently on September 1st. This is because that is the day when Chinese school starts after summer vacation. Everyone wants to keep having summer vacation and not go to back school.<\/p> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.3 \u4eb2\u4eb2 [q\u012bn q\u012bn] &#8211; Kissing Face<p>As you might guess, the kissing face is the favorite emoticon for couples.<\/p>  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.4 \u5077\u7b11 [t\u014du xi\u00e0o] &#8211; Chuckle Face<p> <\/p>  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.5 \u6572\u6253 [qi\u0101o d\u01ce] &#8211; Punching Face<p> <\/p>  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.6 \u53ef\u601c [k\u011b li\u00e1n] &#8211; Pitiful Face<p> <\/p>   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.7 \u62a0\u9f3b [k\u014du b\u00ed] &#8211; Nose Picking<p>The nose picking emoticon symbolizes \u201cbored\u201d, \u201cindifferent\u201d, or \u201cdisagreeing\u201d. Some netizens claim that this usage data is inaccurate and that the nose picking emoticon is actually the one most used by Chinese netizens. Of course, many netizens also think the nose picking emoticon is disgusting and do not like to use it.<\/p> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.8 \u53d1\u5446 [f\u0101 d\u0101i] &#8211; Absent-Minded Face<p> <\/p>   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.9 \u518d\u89c1 [z\u00e0i ji\u00e0n] &#8211; Goodbye Face<p> <\/p>   <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No.10 \u5413 [xi\u00e0] &#8211; Scary Face <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the gender difference data, boys are more likely to use the \u9a9a [s\u0101o]\uff08acting cool\uff09emoticons, while girls like to use \u840c [m\u00e9ng]\uff08cute, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moe_(slang)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moe<\/a>\uff09.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/duchinese\/blog\/images\/107-statistics.png\" alt=\"Emoticon usage statistics\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a set of very popular chat stamps which use the two characters Lilei and Hanmeimei \u201c\u674e\u96f7\u548c\u97e9\u6885\u6885 [l\u01d0 l\u00e9i h\u00e9 h\u00e1n m\u00e9i m\u00e9i]. Lilei and Hanmeimei are characters from the junior high school English textbook in China, so the Chinese are very familiar with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/duchinese\/blog\/images\/107-english.png\" alt=\"Lilei and Hanmeimei\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These stamps contain funny phrases with deliberately mistaken translations and Chinglish. For example, \u4e0d\u8981\u71ac\u591c [b\u00fa y\u00e0o \u00e1o y\u00e8] \uff08Do not stay up late\uff09is translated into \u201cDo not Oh Yeah\u201d because \u71ac\u591c in Chinese sounds similar to the English \u201cOh Yeah\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your thoughts on these Emojis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-8e037b79 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use emojis\/emoticons when you message your friends? What emojis do you like to use the most? Emoji\/emoticon in Chinese is \u8868\u60c5\u7b26\u53f7 [bi\u01ceo q\u00edng f\u00fa h\u00e0o], or just \u8868\u60c5 [bi\u01ceo q\u00edng] for short. Chinese emojis are a little different than the emojis in the west. You can ask your Chinese friends like this: In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thumbnail-4-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}