How to Make a Keyboard Smiley With Fangs

By Clare Edwards

Updated September 28, 2017

Make a fanged smiley by using different characters.
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Keyboard smileys are expressive faces, or emoticons, made up of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other keyboard symbols. Western smileys are read sideways, usually with the top on the left; Asian-style smileys are read horizontally. To make a smiley with fangs, the mouth character or characters is changed to suggest protruding teeth. Some applications that convert text strings to small graphical smileys have a fanged or toothed smiley.

Common Fanged Smileys

Type :-[ to make a fanged smiley. Type >:-[~ to make a scowling vampire with a dribble of blood on his chin.

Type :K to make a snake or vampire with oversized fangs. Type :E to make a buck-toothed vampire. Type :F to make a vampire with crooked fangs.

Type ^;;^ to make a vampire bat with fangs.

Asian-Style Fanged Smileys

Type (';.;') or (',..,') to make a fanged face with small eyes.

Type (@,.,@) to make a vampire with hypnotic eyes. Type (,..,) to make a fanged face with stars for eyes. Type (o,..,o) to make a fanged face with glaring eyes. Type (=,..,=) (-,..,-) or to make a face with narrowed eyes.

Type (^,..,^) to make a happy vampire.

Tips

Type (^^^) on Facebook chat to get a picture of a fanged shark. For bigger-fanged emoticons, you can use text art (ASCII art). Design your own or use an ASCII art library such as ascii-art.de.

Warnings

Emoticons (smileys) are for fun, informal communication like emails to your friends. Avoid using them in more serious messages or academic work.

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