GIFs and smileys aren’t enough to express yourself? Maybe you prefer to do that with symbols and signs that form puppets. Then you’ve come to the right place in this article.
Japanese emoji keyboard
Conversation apps like Telegram and Slack already support GIFs and you can put emoji in every app. But do you know the Japanese emoji? These are dolls that consist entirely of signs. This is an example: (^ o ^).
The above example is easy to make, because those characters can be found in your keyboard. But there are many more emojis that require different types of characters. In iOS itself, the option is to enable a particular keyboard that allows you to just scroll through it. With that you send emoji of characters to others that they probably don’t know yet. In some cases it takes some imagination to see which emotion the dolls emphasize, but they always look funny.
This is how you set it up
You don’t need to download anything from the App Store for the keyboard. You just need to know how to install them. We explain it to you with the step-by-step plan below.
- Open the ‘Settings’ app on your iPhone or iPad;
- Tap on ‘General’ and swipe down to ‘Keyboard’;
- In the next window choose ‘Keyboards’ and then ‘Add keyboard …’;
- For languages, choose Japanese and select ‘Romaji’.
Using Japanese emoji
Now that you’ve installed the language, you can take advantage of the new emoji menu. But it is also a bit hidden. If you are in a text box, press the globe at the bottom of the screen. If you selected Japanese, choose ‘123’ on the keyboard, then tap the ‘^ _ ^’ face. You will now see the emoji appear in a row and if you tap the ‘^’ icon to the right of the row, the menu will expand for a better overview. By tapping on them, you put them in the text box and you can send them. Since it is simply text, it works in any app.
Make sure the Japanese language is off
The setting may cause some apps to be displayed in Japanese. To stop that, go to the ‘Settings’ app, select ‘General’ and tap ‘Language and region’. Under iPhone language is not only Dutch, but also Japanese. That’s the culprit. To remove it, tap ‘Edit’ at the top right and then press the red minus icon for ‘Japanese’. Choose ‘Delete’ and the Japanese language option will disappear from the device, while the keyboard continues to work.
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