Variant emoticons used on BIX (the Byte Information eXchange). The most common ( smiley) bixie is <@_@>, apparently intending to represent two cartoon eyes and a mouth (the bixie conventions have been influenced by Japanese anime). A few others have been reported:
^_^ ^-^
- two variant smileys
-_-
- frown; closest equivalent of :-(
@_@
- bewilderment (uncommon)
O_o o_O
- bewilderment (more common)
?_?
- puzzlement
!_! O_O
- surprise
$_$
- money on the mind
%_% ;_;
- crying
*_*
- zoned out
>_<
- puckered up, squinting
©_©
- looking crosseyed at somebody, "Oh, please!"
A period (.) can be substituted for the underbar mouth where felt
appropriate, for example: o.O
as opposed to o_O
. This
is sometimes considered to amplify what is being sent over. Equals
signs (=) can be appended to one to denote hair or a feline, as in
=^_^=
.
In the Japanese anime modern bixies often are modeled on, when a
character is noted to be nervous a big
water-drop-like thing forms somewhere around its head - also
called a sweat drop or "bigsweat". This is denoted by a semicolon
after the bixie, as in ^_^;;
.
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