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Translingual
Etymology
: (“eyes”) + - (“nose”) + ) (“smiling mouth”). First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982[1]
Symbol
:-)
- An emoticon representing a smiley face.
Descendants
- Russian: ) (internet slang)
Usage notes
- Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis ("
)
"), sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used.
Synonyms
- :), =)
- ☺, ☻
Antonyms
- :-(
References
- “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com, 2007-09-20, retrieved 2007-09-20