Learn More About Emoticons in Chinese
Emoticon is populuar known as "字符表情 (颜文字)" in Chinese, while Emoji is often called "Emoji 表情", "表情符号" or "小黄脸表情".
Broadly speaking, either Emoji or Emoticon belongs to types of "表情符号". The differences are that "Emoji" usually represents a series of emotional signs after standardized and graphical production, but "Emoticon" (字符表情) refers to the Internet expressions consisting of a group of characters, punctuation marks, and symbols only, as you see from the Emoticon word-card above.
RECOMMENDED: To know more about Emoticon in Chinese, please further read the bilingual story on How to pronounce and differ Memes, Emojis, Stickers and Emoticons in Chinese with Pinyin and Chinese Meanings included.
Use Emoticon in Chinese Sentences
Written into Chinese
在中文里,无论字符表情还是颜文字都是指 Emoticon。
Easy-to-learn Pinyin:
Zài zhōng wén lǐ, wú lùn zì fú biǎo qíng hái shì yán wén zì dōu shì zhǐ Emoticon.
Standard Chinese Pinyin:
Zài zhōngwén lǐ, wúlùn zìfú biǎoqíng háishì yán wénzì dōu shì zhǐ Emoticon.
Written into Chinese
当我打出两个字的时候,键盘自动带出了相关的可爱字符表情
。
Easy-to-learn Pinyin:
Dāng wǒ dǎ chū liǎng gè zì de shí hòu, jiàn pán zì dòng dài chū le xiāng guān de kě ài zì fú biǎo qíng.
Standard Chinese Pinyin:
Dāng wǒ dǎchū liǎnggè zì de shíhòu, jiànpán zìdòng dàichūle xiāngguān de kěài zìfú biǎoqíng.
Written into Chinese
诞生于 1982 年的笑脸符号 :-)大概是最早出现的字符表情
了。
Easy-to-learn Pinyin:
Dàn shēng yú 1982 nián de xiào liǎn fú hào :-)dà gài shì zuì zǎo chū xiàn de zì fú biǎo qíng le.
Standard Chinese Pinyin:
Dànshēng yú 1982 nián de xiàoliǎn fúhào :-)dàgài shì zuì zǎo chūxiàn de zìfú biǎoqíng le.