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Mini Icons Emoticons

Mini Icons emoticons are resized to fit the page layout. To see Mini Icons emoticon in real size, right click on it and then "View Image" (Firefox). To save Mini Icons emoticon on your computer, right click on it and then "Save Image As..." (Firefox).

Shield

Printer

Pulldown

Lock

Quote

Warning

Database

Font Lowercase

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Paste

Arrow Fat Right

Graph

Tag

Font Up

Basket

Merge

Copy

Plugin

Indent Out

Magnify Minus

Arrow Left

Script

Field Textarea

Mail Open

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Checkbox

Flag

Expand Horizontal

Table

Save

3rd

Field Input

Linespace Decrease

Key

Arrow Fat Up

Sad

Cube

Turn Right

Contract Verical

List Ordered

Index Card

Folder

Arrow Mini Down

Bookmark

Contract Horizontal

Turn Left

1st

Arrow Mini Right

Globe

Home

Ident In

Plus

Comment

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Drop Box

Font Uppercase

Happy

Cross

Heart

Arrow Fat Down

Tick

Cut

Clipboard

Split

Arrow Fat Left

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Minus

Field Password

Field Text

Sound

Comment Left

Font Down

Arrow Collapse

Arrow Dash Up

Arrow Mini Up

Person

Arrow Dash Right

Block

Magnify Plus

Arrow Dash Left

Mobile

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Magnify

Bug

Transmission

Arrow Down

Button

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Arrow Expand

Linespace Increase

Clipboard Full

Mail

Bell

Field Hidden

Arrow Dash Down

Trash

Heart Broken

Mail Back

Calendar

Sound On

Wand

Calendar Day

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Clock

Expand Vertical

Document

Arrow Up

Radio

Image

List Unordered

Star

Arrow Right

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What is Emoticon?

An emoticon is a small piece of specialized ASCII art (usually two to five characters, always on a single line) used in text messages as informal markup to indicate emotions and attitudes that would be conveyed by body language in face-to-face communications. They are intended to be relatively simple to type, easy to recognize, and most commonly represent stylized facial expressions although occasionally other representations or imagery are also used. With the advent of richer media in modern instant messaging and sophisticated web-based BBS systems these are often replaced in the display by a small graphic image (usually based on the generic smiley, although other evocative imagery such as hearts are also used). Some users also use pseudo-html ( for "grin" or ... to mark appropriate sections) and BBSs that use BBCode have their own alternative markup for inserting graphic emoticons (:sad: :shocked: etc.) which can also be read as text markup on non-graphical browsers such as Lynx. Emoticons developed as a form of paralanguage used as extended interpunction symbols in e-mail, instant messaging, online chat, bulletin board systems, and Internet forums where communication is rapid, and the lack of context in purely textual communications could lead to even simple statements being easily misinterpreted. Often a smile is represented with a basic smiley :-). The colon represents the eyes, the hyphen is for the nose, and the parenthesis for the mouth. Many variants exist with different symbols substituted for the basic ones. The symbol for the nose is often omitted, for example :) or ;). When the colon is replaced with the equals sign, =), the nose is almost always omitted (so one would not see =-), for example). There are also such smilies as X ) and 8 ). This is also used to make figures, objects and animals.