118 PCWorld JULY 2019HERE’S HOW TYPE KAOMOJI ON A PC
known as version 1903. If you’re having
trouble accessing these new emoji and
kaomoji, type winver into the Windows
search bar, then make sure the second line
says Version 1903. The May 2019 Update
started rolling out May 21, and users will
receive the upgrade in waves. (If you want
the May 2019 update right away, here’s how
to get it (go.pcworld.com/gtmy).)HOW TO TYPE KAOMOJI
UNDER WINDOWS 10
There are some subtleties to typing kaomoji
under Windows 10, however. For one thing,
they’re confusingly organized.
The emoji keyboard contains three tabs:
emoji, kaomoji, and, lastly, symbols of all
types. The emoji tab is well organized, with a
search function at the very top: type in lips,for example, and the “kiss” and “mouth”
emoji will appear. For each emoji you’ll
also receive some explanatory text
describing each one.
Tab over to the kaomoji keyboard, and
there’s nothing like that—yet. Hopefully
you’ll have a rudimentary knowledge of what
symbol means what, or that they’re detailed
enough to figure out on your own. Yes,
there’s a nav bar of sorts on the bottom, a “I
didn’t even see that” way to navigate
between happy, sad, silly, and other
kaomoji—but the nav bar itself is also done in
emoji, which seems a little much. Pop-up
text provides some rudimentary explanation.
This is a largely self-guided tour.
(That same odd, bottom-row nav bar
applies to the symbols menu, too. At least
there’s some explanatory text when you
hover your cursor over
the navigation bar,
with categories that
include “general
punctuation,”
“currency symbols,”
“Latin symbols,”
and more.)
Remember that
emoji are single
symbols, so that you
won’t have to worry
about line breaks.
Kaomoji and
emoticons are not soOddly enough, the right-click emoji keyboard option does not appear in
Word, or even Notepad. But if you want to search Bing for emoji, you have
Microsoft’s blessing.