Which smiley is j

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Wow, thanks for this question. I've also seen this a couple of times and thought it was some new slang for a smiley face which I was too behind the times to know of, but the fact that it's a font issue is even stranger than my wildest imagination.

Surely this is off-topic? I'm voting to close this question as off-topic. It's clearly interesting to many people, but it turned out not to be about English: it's about a technical error in the encoding of emoticons. I have also flagged it and suggested it be put on historical lock: I hope that will occur if it is closed so that it can be preserved as an important question from the earlier years of this site.

Active Oldest Votes. What does "J" mean in e-mail messages? The J is actually supposed to be a smiley face. Otherwise, it will be the letter "J": J This is because the letter J represents a smiley face icon in the Wingdings font. Community Bot 1. Hopefully, now when you go back and look at your messages with mysterious "J's", they will make sense in the context they appear.

It should also be easier to interpret future occurrences as well. The J is actually supposed to be a smiley face. Otherwise, it will be the letter "J": J This is because the letter J represents a smiley face icon in the Wingdings font.

Is it possible to read my email on another computer besides my own? As you can see from the iPhone image above, Apple substitutes the Segoe UI Emoji font with another font which also has emoji. Skip to content Menu Cart. Under the hood — Emoji in Outlook What has changed with the new, compatible and color emoji? We had to dig into the guts of a Word document to see how the new smiley face is being coded. Keep an eye on Microsoft Office.