Communication is the fastest way to establish a relationship with others. The best way to express feelings or mood without the use of words is through the use of smileys. This is why they were put in place.
Que signifie l’émoji visage en pointillés 🫥 ? Apprenez à déchiffrer les différentes significations de ce smiley à travers cet article !
Image showing smiley face with dotted line
What does the smiley: dotted face mean?
The smiley: dotted face is polysemous since it has several different meanings, depending on the context in which it is used. Emojipedia, unveiled on World Emoji Day, which took place in July 2022, that the dotted face holds the 9th place of the most used emojis in 2022. The hypotheses relate that the smiley: dotted face is a cliche of the comics representing someone invisible.
- 1time meaning: most of the time, it is seen as the smiley face representing the introverts. The dotted lines forming the outline of the face denote invisibility. This allows reserved people to hide. We're talking here about "being in one's bubble", isolating oneself, or getting depressed.
- 2th meaning: by being confused with his brothers, he could be referring to the discretion and take on the meaning of being invisible or "to be incognito" or to be taken as impassive. It is the dotted lines around it that push it into this category.
- 3th meaning: it could indicate the sign of mental fatigue in others. Despite its exhaustion, it persists in getting up or holding on. It can also be a sign of discomfort due to overexposure.
- 4th meaning: this smiley could be sign of incipient anger "the calm before the storm". To have the lips pulled back by thinning them so much it's extremely taut, even almost invisible, really as the smiley face indicates.
Smiley history 🫥
For several years now, emojis, emoticons, smileys, stickers, Giphy, Tenor and avatars have been very popular in the world of communication. Their use on social networks holds first place worldwide.
In 2021, the Unicode Consortium has agreed to the introduction of 112 new emoji and smiley characters on smartphones (IPhone and Android). In addition to the dotted face, there's also the face with open eyes and hand over mouth, a troll, a lotus flower, a heart with fingers and other emojis.
Every smartphone has their own way of demonstrating the dotted face emoji, but their similarity or commonality lies in the outline of the face: always dotted in yellow. Inserted in all platforms and on social networks since September 14, 2021, it ranks among the emojis.
However, it's in the 2022s that it's used to the full. Sometimes it is confused with the smiley 😐 which stands for neutral face, and the smiley 😑 which denotes an expressionless face.
There are several reasons why this smiley is among those most used since 2022, especially among the new generation. It adapts to several situations, especially those that require a certain discretion or to indicate an introverted person.
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