PC World - USA (2019-07)

116 PCWorld JULY 2019

HERE’S HOW

H

ow can I type kaomoji on my

PC? And what are kaomoji,

anyway? Fortunately, the

answers to both questions are

simple, and easily accessible within

Windows 10’s May 2019 Update. The

familiar emoji keyboard (go.pcworld.com/

emjk) within Windows has been expanded

to include both kaomoji and symbols, and

adding them to Facebook, Twitter, and other

social media apps is extremely easy.

What’s a kaomoji? A kaomoji is simply a

more complex emoticon, the predecessor

to the emoji. You’re probably familiar with

the smiley :) or winky ;) which consist of

familiar punctuation symbols combined to

form an expression. That’s an emoticon.

Emoji are simply pictorial representations of

emoticons, so that a winky symbol is

represented as a.

How to type kaomoji on your

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We’ll show you how to type emoji, kaomoji, and symbols, in just a few easy steps.

It’s incredibly easy with Windows 10. BY MARK HACHMAN

IMAGE: MARK HACHMAN