And, in the same way, you can also imagine a seemingly reticent and reserved friend, who is actually quite easy to get along with, saying nothing after hearing ‘不去,去亚马逊买都你带方便’, and silently digs his nose. You can simply imagine a very out-going friend responds to this deliberately apathetic ‘不去,去亚马逊买都你带方便’, saying: ‘Now I have to reevaluate our friendship,’ who will be best described by the wavey smiley. But while the wavey smiley is somehow directly expressing playfully ‘our friendship is over(友尽)’, the nose pick one is expressing in a more introverted way the slight dissatisfaction here. In this context, you can use both nose pick smiley and the wavey smiley. But you don’t need these details to help you use it well when chatting with your friends. But why the frowning eyebrows? Why the sideways look and why the pouted mouth? Nearly all of us use it without considering these things. It seems quite obvious to everyone that he is picking his nose. It is so often used in our QQ and Wechat conversations yet the actual meaning of it is so blurred and even chaotic that I have to think for some weeks before writing about it. This is a face on which you can write a linguistic PhD essay. That's were this emoji comes into play.īelieve me. other scenarios can include someone littering on the campus, teachers do nothing but read power points slide on classes, roommates typing on a plastic keyboard like a t-rex trampling over Chris Pratt when you're trying to get to sleep. Have you ever been annoyed at someone cutting in line? But he just can’t help waving hands at the noisy people downstairs interrupting his preparations for the coming final exam, which literally means ‘why don’t you get out of her. Here, the little man is actually showing his anger by a with a forced smile.
When you are not seriously aggravated at something or someone, use it to express your mixed feeling of 30% love and 70% hate. In this context its used for expressing one’s feeling towards something, means a playful repulse towards something. But when you are using it, do remember to add words like ‘你要不要这么厉害’ or ‘学霸’ or something like that to make sure you mean what you want to mean. Therefore, as you can guess, the waving smiley in this situation basically means to exclaim that one of your friends is really good at doing something in a much more honest way than to say ‘Congratulations!’ or ‘Well done!’. In these conversations somebody’s being really good or working hard at something. Obviously it can only happen between close friends and the face in this context means, playfully, the end of our friendship.Īnd of course, to use it when chatting with acquaintances or strangers in China could be inappropriate.
In this conversation, the response to knowing the other guy’s the bad result of a math exam is asking him to buy a dinner. So let’s interpret this face in the examples of wechat conversations. But just like little smiling man in the former episode, this man has these connotations a lot of different connotations. He is absolutely sarcastic and cynical when he’s doing this. When you want to say good-bye on wechat, do make sure you don’t use this face because it is not a man waving hands kindly at you at all. Why? Because again you mess with this mercurial little man. And if that is the case, you will probably be in trouble after you wake up the next morning.
Very much relieved, you type this little man:īy which you think you mean 再见 and 晚安, sent it and go to sleep. So you tell him/her that you have to sleep because there will be an important test or interview tomorrow morning and finally he/she agrees. Let’s suppose you are chatting with your Chinese boyfriend or girlfriend before sleep on wechat.You feel really exhausted and want to end the conversation as soon as possible. That conversation went way over your head. Has your Chinese friend every sent you this?