Japanese texts frequently use emoji or kaomoji in place of using a full stop at the end of messages.
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Kaomoji
//ˈkaʊməʊd͡ʒi//
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Why are kaomoji from countries using the Latin alphabet turned sideways?
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While kaomoji and emoji express contexts or moods that cannot be conveyed through textual information alone, they are also used to compensate for the lack of personalization in electronic text that otherwise exists in hand-written form.
Source: wiktionary
For example, the typical emoticon for smile, :-), is the kaomoji ^--^.
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