Kaoani

A kaoani

Kaoani comes from the Japanese kao (顔, face) and ani (アニ, animation). Kaoanis are little animated smilies that usually bounce up and down to look like they are floating. The originating country of the kaoani is Japan. Kaoanis are also known as puffs, anime blobs, anikaos or anime emoticons.

Kaoani can take the form of animals, foodstuffs such as rice balls, colorful blobs, colorful blobs dressed as animals, colorful blobs dressed as foodstuffs such as rice balls, colorful blobs dressed as colorful blobs, cartoon characters, colorful blobs dressed as cartoon characters, foodstuffs dressed as animals, animals dressed as colorful blobs, etc. Many are animated to be performing a certain task, such as dancing, laughing, or cheering.

The file format for kaoanis is always GIF, since it supports animations. Kaoanis are mostly used on internet forums, MySpace profiles, blogs and MSN Messenger to show moods.

See also

• Emoticon
• Smiley
• MSN Messenger

Examples

• Kaoani emoticons
• Mood icons
• Kaoani gifs
• Kaoani collection
• Kaoani tutorial