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The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block Official name Glyph Codepoint HTML Official description Black sun with rays: ☀: U+2600 ☀ Clear weather Cloud: ☁: U+2601 ☁
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While the art can be realistic or cartoonish, characters often have large eyes (female characters usually have larger eyes than male characters), small noses, tiny mouths, and flat faces. Psychological and social research on facial attractiveness has pointed out that the presence of childlike, neotenous facial features increases attractiveness ...
The first ASCII emoticons are generally credited to computer scientist Scott Fahlman, who proposed what came to be known as "smileys"—:-) and :-(—in a message on the bulletin board system (BBS) of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the direction of the text.
Kaomoji emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using strings of text characters, such as: (^ω^) → happy, excited, smile ( ͡o╭╮ ͡o)→ unhappy, sad, frown; Kamoji appeared in parallel with the emergence of emoticons (smileys) in the United States in the same decade. Unlike Kaomoji, emoticons generally ...
Death-related usages include: In biology, the dagger next to a taxon name indicates that the taxon is extinct. [23] [24] [31] In chemistry, the double dagger is used in chemical kinetics to indicate a short-lived transition state species. In genealogy, the dagger is used traditionally to mark a death in genealogical records. [32]