Editing Acronyms, Faces, and Asterisks Explained (section)

==== General faces and variants: ====
xD - one of the most common faces; it means either laughing, smiling, or being amused in some way.

Variants – Xd XD xDD XDD (any number of Ds at the end, really. All mean more or less the same thing)

<nowiki>:</nowiki>) - smiley face, use when happy.

Variants - :] c: C: :} etc. (really anything that has two eyes and a smile counts as a smiley and means about the same thing)

P - sticking out tongue (not in a bad way!). It can be used to indicate amusement, a shrugging face, a lot of things, so use context.

Variants - :P :p :b d: q:

x) (also X) - giggling smile; awww-ish smile (e.g. "That's so cute! x)" use varies depending on user)

<nowiki>:</nowiki>3 - Cute face, cute smiley (use context)

<nowiki>:</nowiki>( - frowny face, use when sad.

Variants - :[ :c :C 3: etc. (about the negative equivalent of a smiley, anything with two eyes and a frown)

Dx - the reversed Dx, it's basically a wailing face

D: - Slightly distressed face (e.g. Aww, you have to go now? D:)

<nowiki>:</nowiki>/ - melancholy face, used mainly in "aww, ok..." kinds of situations, including feeling sorry for someone

Variants - :/ :\ :|

>:/ - Stumped/thinking hard face (known as the epic-thinking-face)

Variants - >:/ >:\ >:|

<nowiki>:</nowiki>O - Surprised face, a dude with his mouth wide open.

Variants - :O :o O: o: :0 0: \OoO/

===== Winking faces: =====
The semi-colon ";" is used in faces to indicate a wink.

<nowiki>;</nowiki>) - winking face

<nowiki>;</nowiki>D - big-smile-winking-face (both wink faces can [but do not necessarily] denote a joke or flirty statement)

>;D - Sort of like the big-smile-winking-face, but with slightly eviiill intents (see below).

===== The > faces. =====
The greater than sign ">" is commonly added onto emoticons to imply eviiiilness or denote anger.

>:) - eviiil smile

>:( - Angry face

>8) - Crazed eviiiil smile (also, mad-scientist-with-goggles-face)

>:D - exaggerated version of the >:) face, can also be an evil-bad-guy-laugh face)

>8D - Same as >:D, but crazed.

There is a difference between "evil" and "eviiiil." Evil, with one 'i,' means the absence of good, as you know. Eviiiil, on the other hand, is pronounced "eeeevil," and it means clever or cunning.