Japan?s thirty hardest emoticons

By Ken Y-N ( July 1, 2012 at 23:09) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

If you don?t have a Japanese font installed this survey will be impossible to understand; I do, yet I can barely work out some of these difficult to picture emoji.

Demographics

Over the 19th and 20th of April 2012 1,092 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.5% of the sample were female, 11.3% in their teens, 17.0% in their twenties, 28.4% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 10.2% in their fifties, and 7.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I can picture just a few of them, but I?ll have to add them all to another site of mine, Evoticon.net.

Ranking results

Q: What emoticons are impossible to read without a capacity for imagination? (Sample size=1,092)

Rank	?	Explanation	Score
1	??	Flying trapeze	100
2	?	Droopy-eyed couple kissing	97.7
3	???	Cat	95.1
4=	?U	Dog	90.2
4=	??	Mouse looking over its shoulder	90.2
6	??	Leaping dolphin	89.7
7	??????	Pteranodon	88.1
8	????	Samurai chopping the head off a peasant	87.7
9	??	Snoopy	83.5
10	?ho?????	Angry cat	81.3
11	?	Dangling feet in the water/jumping into a pond feet-first	82.1
12	??	Fallen down skier	81.1
13	?	Arguing	80.3
14	?	Baseball batter missing a fork ball	80.1
15	?	Cablecar	79.1
16	?	Titanic	74.7
17	?????	Ultraman	72.6
18	?	Baby sleeping in a cot	71.3
19	??	Bowling	70.4
20	?	Buildings at the end of the road	68.7
21	oh???	Bullet time!	68.4
22	??	Snail	66.7
23	? ? ?	People planting rice in a paddy	66.6
24=	AAAAAAAAAAAA	Set of 12 coloured pencils	66.3
24=	?	Person beating a taiko drum	66.3
26	??	Praying at a grave	65.7
27	???	Ski-jumper	63.8
28	???3?	Bakabon?s Papa (cartoon character)	60.7
29	????	Tug of war	57.4
30	?	Toilet	56.8

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