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Put all your money here.

Also Known As

  • Blue Bank
  • Brooklyn
  • Burger King

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The symbol of a post office in Japan is a stylized katakana syllable te (テ), 〒. This is used on the signs of post offices, on post boxes, and it is also sometimes used before the postcode on letters. This mark is derived from the Japanese word teishin (逓信, “communications”).

Fun fact: The Japanese Post has a terrifying mascot, 〠.

Also Known As

  • T Building

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A love hotel is a hotel that can be hired by the hour, instead of as accommodation for the evening. Unlike the regular hotel, this one is explicitly intended for love. May not be a family-friendly establishment.

Also Known As

  • Love Heart Hotel Emoji
  • Loving Hospital

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A place to stay when traveling from home. Not to be confused with the hospital despite the big H out front.

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  • H Building Emoji
  • Accommodation Emoji

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A place where people are taken to receive medical care. This Hospital Emoji has a large red cross on the front, often used as a symbol for health care. May or may not be controversial in Islamic and Jewish cultures.

Inside the hospital are a range of workers: nurses, doctors, and administrative staff.

Also Known As

  • Red Cross Emoji
  • Medical Emoji
  • Emergency Room Emoji

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A name badge, used to identify oneself in a location that others may not know your name.

Also Known As

  • Name Tag Emoji
  • Fire Tag Emoji
  • Tulip?

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Not to be confused with Sleeping Face Emoji, this Sleepy Face Emoji is drooling(?) out one side of its mouth. Presumably in a deep sleep. Maybe that’s some snot, though…

Also Known As

  • 表情(あくび)
  • Side-Tear Emoji
  • Drooling Emoji

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The tear-looking shape can also represent a snot bubble from classic animes.

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Tears are streaming down both sides of loudly crying face.

This Emoji is distraught and inconsolable.

Also Known As

  • 表情(大泣き)
  • Crying Emoji
  • Tears Emoji
  • Bawling Emoji
  • Sobbing Emoji
  • Cry me a river
  • Waterfalls (#noTLC)

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A laughing Emoji. At small sizes this Emoji is often mistaken for being sad. In fact , this emoji is laughing so much that it is crying tears of joy. Tears are coming from both eyes, not due to sadness, but overwhelmed with happiness or laughter. Again, not sad.

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  • 表情(泣き笑い)
  • Laughing Emoji
  • Laughing Crying Emoji
  • Happy Tears Emoji
  • Laughing Tears Emoji
  • LOL Emoji

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A face with a single tear running from one eye, down the cheek. Hurt, upset, but not hysterically crying. So sad. Something negative must have happened.

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  • 表情(悲しい)
  • Crying Emoji
  • Tear Emoji
  • Teary Emoji

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