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Etymology

: (eyes) + - (nose) + ) (smiling mouth). First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982^[1]

Symbol

:-)

An emoticon representing a smiley face.

Usage notes

Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis ), sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used:^[2]
Migrating to Linux (or BSD :-) would help our users keep track of their uploads and file permissions.

Synonyms

:), =)
☺, ☻

Antonyms

:-(

Descendants

⇒ Russian: )

References

^ “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com‎^[1], Associated Press, 2007 September 20, retrieved 2007-09-20
^ TED Talk (xkcd comic, Feb 9 2009)

[smiley-1] “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com‎^[1], Associated Press, 2007 September 20, retrieved 2007-09-20

[2] TED Talk (xkcd comic, Feb 9 2009)

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