LANGUAGE
OwO
UwU
American Sign Language
Braille (Grade 1)
⠠⠕⠺⠠⠕
⠠⠥⠺⠠⠥
Braille (Grade 2)
⠠⠪⠠⠕
⠠⠥⠺⠠⠥
Flag Semaphore
Maritime Signals Code
Leet Speak
0W0
()\/\/()
UWU
U\/\/U
Wingdings
⚐🔹⚐
✝🔹✝
Webdings
👂⛳👂
📢⛳📢
OwO Survival Handbook
The OwO Survival Handbook
What is an “OwO”?
The OwO is a universal symbol that can display various emotions or activities depending on how it’s written. Throughout this handbook, you will see many of these variants. The most well known is, of course, “OwO”. Another popular one is “UwU”.
But what does it mean? Who uses it?
A common OwO is usually associated with anime, cuteness, or irony, though can vary depending on the usage and appearance. The emoticon genre is commonly used by anime fans, furries, K-Pop fans or anyone else who wants to tag along. The audience is hastily shrinking, though.
Eyes are the most important part for your OwO. It certainly shows the most emotion. Many different characters can substitute as eyeballs. The most common are O and U, but others do work, such as Q, V, 0 (zero), @, X, and any other circular letter or symbol, even a period!
Accents are used to add eyebrows to eyes. Below is an example.
O → Ò
OwO → ÒwÓ
Some other accents include: Ô Ö Ò Ó Ø Ō Õ
This is where your creativity shines! Try making your own face with accents. On most phones and some computers, you can hold down certain letters to display their accented versions. Another useful letter to put accents on is U. “UwU” shows a calmer expression.
Below are some examples to get your creativity flowing.
ÒwÓ ÓwÒ ÔwÔ ŌwŌ
ØwØ Ôwõ ôwô òwó ōwō
ÙwÚ ÛwÛ ùwú ŪwŪ Ôwū
The mouth is the second most important part of your OwO. It clarifies whether you are showing happiness, sadness, etc. Many mouths can be used. Though not used nearly as frequently as W, these may also pop up from time to time: n, o, m, 3 or v.
OwO is very universal because of its simplistic nature. Most languages - even ancient ones - have circle-shaped, W-shaped, or U-shaped characters.
Below is a table of languages and their characters useful for OwO-making. Of course, we advise you to be creative and not just stick to these. Experiment a little!
LANGUAGE | EYES | MOUTHS |
Latin | O o ¤ ° º Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø ò ó ô õ ö ø Ō ō Ŏ ŏ Ő ő Ɵ ɵ Ơ ơ Ǒ ǒ Ȏ ȏ ʘ U u Ù Ú Û Ü ù ú û ü Ư ư Ʊ Ʋ Ǔ ǔ Ȗ ȗ | W w ɯ ɰ m ʍ |
Chinese | 囗 口 凵 | 山 屮 |
Cyrillic | О о Ф ф ѳ ѻ Ц ц | ѿ Ш ш Щ щ Ц ц ѽ ѱ |
Arabic | ه ب ن | س |
Armenian | Օ օ Փ Ծ Ս ս | ա պ |
Braille | ⠁ | |
Carian | 𐊨 𐊫 𐊭 𐊳 𐊸 𐊺 | 𐋐 𐊿 |
Georgian | ი ჲ ტ ჶ | ო |
Gothic | 𐍈 𐌵 | 𐌸 |
Greek | Θ θ Ο ο σ Φ φ υ Ω | ω Ψ ψ |
Hebrew | ס ם | ש |
Japanese | ロ ㇿ の ひ ゚ ゜ ・ | |
Korean | ㅁ ㅇ ㅎ | ㅆ ㅃ |
Lycian | 𐊒 𐊔 | 𐊘 𐊚 𐊜 𐊃 𐊎 |
Lydian | 𐤬 𐤿 | 𐤷 𐤶 𐤵 |
Phoenician | 𐤈 𐤏 𐤒 | 𐤔 𐤌 |
Polish | O Ó U | W |
Thai | ธ | พ ผ ฝ ฟ |
Ugaritic | 𐎏 | 𐎜𐎄 |
Ukrainian | О о Ф ф Ѳ ѳ Ц ц | Ш ш Щ щ |
There are a lot of unconventional languages such as Sign Language or Braille, and you can even make OwOs in them! If you’re looking for encryptions such as Morse Code or Binary, see Chapter 6 - Encrypted OwOs.
LANGUAGE | OwO | UwU |
American Sign Language | ||
Braille (Grade 1) | ⠠⠕⠺⠠⠕ | ⠠⠥⠺⠠⠥ |
Braille (Grade 2) | ⠠⠪⠠⠕ | ⠠⠥⠺⠠⠥ |
Flag Semaphore | ||
Maritime Signals Code | ||
Leet Speak | 0W0 ()\/\/() | UWU U\/\/U |
Wingdings | ⚐🔹⚐ | ✝🔹✝ |
Webdings | 👂⛳👂 | 📢⛳📢 |
In Polish, the word “owo” quite literally means “the word”. This may cause some confusion if your OwO is typed with lowercase O’s. Also, fun fact, “owo” can mean “arm” in Ogea - an endangered language only spoken by around 2,210 people in New Guinea. OwO could be confused as a plural noun too, with an area in Nigeria being named “Owo”.
Above is a chart via Google Trends that shows the web search usage of “OwO”, blue, and “UwU”, red. As you can see, OwO usage - at least in the way we are talking about - spikes starting at August 2016. In 2018, the use of OwO and UwU blew up in the K-Pop community, as shown in the chart. A chapter talking about the K-Pop community’s usage also exists.
People all around the K-Pop community use UwU as a noun, mostly with the phrase, “big uwu” or “big uwu energy”, usually meaning “a lot of love”. K-Pop stans are one of the biggest users of OwO, UwU, etc..
Depending on your way of speaking, you may pronounce OwO and UwU in a few different ways, but below are the most common ones. You might even spell out the letters themselves.
OwO - “oh woah”
UwU - “oo woo”
VwV - “voo woo” (rare)
Most variants not on this list are simply pronounced as the comprising letters.
Sometimes, because of the large amount of emoji (i.e. 👱😍😹), circular or eye-shaped symbols are used in replacement of the “O” in “OwO”. Below are some examples.
⭕️w⭕️ 🔵w🔵 ⚫️w⚫️ 👁w👁 👁🗨w👁🗨
☢️w☢️ ⏺w⏺ 🔘w🔘 🔴w🔴 ⚪️w⚪️
O〰️O 👁〰️👁 👁🗨〰👁🗨
Even though there are a lot of emoji, there are even more non-emoji Unicode characters (i.e. ⬤◯❍). These can lead to some funky and creative designs, check them out below!
⬤w⬤ ◯w◯ ⧭w⧭ ⨷w⨷ ◑w◐
⌽w⌽ ⌾w⌾ ⏀w⏀ ❍w❍ ◙w◙
Try to make your own, think out of the box a little! Here are a bunch of circles to get you started:
⍥ ⍟ ⊖ ⓪ ⓿ ○ ◌ ◍ ● ◐ ◑ ◒ ◓ ◔ ◕ ◯ ◷ ⚆ ⚈ ❍ ⦾ ⧀ ⨀ ⨁ ⨂ ⦽ ⦵ ⦶ ⦷ 𐩒 ⬤ ⏣ ⚬ ⭘ 🄌 🄋 ⚪︎ ⚫︎ ⭕︎ ㊗︎ 🅞 Ⓞ ⓞ 0 🄞 ㊉ ㊀ O
Share your creations with us on Twitter!
If you use some of the clock emoji, you can create a sort of pupil effect. Check them out!
🕕w🕕 🕛w🕛 🕧w🕧 🕡w🕡 🕡w🕛
If you’re reading this book, you probably found it from Twitter. If so, you may be wondering what a “Spirit OwO” is, as it’s referenced a lot.
A Spirit OwO is a spirit animal of sorts, except it’s a face. Not just any face, though! A face that represents you as a person, what you mean. Pick or make yours, and be sure to be expressive and creative. We have a variety up for display on Twitter and more are posted each day.
Here are some encrypted versions of OwO that may come in handy someday. You could be trapped and need to send a message in another language that you don’t really understand, like a computer language or encryption. Luckily, if you have this book available, you can! Well, at least you can send “OwO”...
To write “OwO” in other human languages, see Chapter 3 - Versatility.
Plain Text | OwO | UwU |
Morse Code (Code Representation) | --- .-- --- | ..- .-- ..- |
Morse Code (Timing Representation) | ===.===.===...=.===.===...===.===.=== | =.=.===...=.===.===...=.=.=== |
NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet | Oscar Whiskey Oscar | Uniform Whiskey Uniform |
Dutch Spelling Alphabet | Otto Willem Otto | Utrecht Willem Utrecht |
German Spelling Alphabet | Otto Wilhelm Otto | Ulrich Wilhelm Ulrich |
Swedish Armed Forces’ Radio Alphabet | Olof Wilhelm Olof | Urban Wilhelm Urban |
ROT5 (0-9) | OwO | UwU |
ROT13 (A-Z, a-z) | BjB | HjH |
ROT18 (0-9, A-Z, a-z) | BjB | HjH |
ROT47 (!-~) | ~H~ | &H& |
Affine Cipher Slope/A :5 Intercept/B: 8 Alphabet: a-z | aoa | eoe |
Caesar Cipher Shift: 7 Alphabet: a-z | vdv | bdb |
Atbash (Latin Alphabet) | ldl | fdf |
Atbash (Hebrew Alphabet) | owo | uwu |
Vigenère Cipher (Standard) Key: OwO Key Mode: Repeat Alphabet: a-z | csc | isi |
Vigenère Cipher (Beaufort) Key: OwO Key Mode: Repeat Alphabet: a-z | aaa | uau |
Vigenère Cipher (Variant Beaufort) Key: OwO Key Mode: Repeat Alphabet: a-z | aaa | gag |
Vigenère Cipher (Trithemius) Alphabet: a-z | oxq | uxw |
Enigma Machine | kbq | abr |
Base64 | T3dP | VXdV |
Base64url | T3dP | VXdV |
Transfer Encoding For MIME | T3dP | VXdV |
Original Base64 | T3dP | VXdV |
Ascii85 | :NoS | <HhF |
Z85 (ZeroMQ) | pJ]O | rD?B |
URL Encoding | OwO | UwU |
Unicode Code Points | U+4F U+77 U+4F | U+55 U+77 U+55 |
Decimal | 79 119 79 | 85 119 85 |
Hexadecimal | 4f 77 4f | 55 77 55 |
Binary | 1001111 1110111 1001111 | 1010101 1110111 1010101 |
Octal | 117 167 117 | 125 167 125 |
NCR (Decimal) | O w O | U w U |
NCR (Hexadecimal) | O w O | U w U |
Shannon Entropy | 0.91829583405449 | 0.91829583405449 |
SHA-1 | 7ac72a26f5b1265cf57c01d4 0f91e4997f5868df | 0e975caaeebcad6c8eae26 181ddd2348f436de0d |
SHA-256 | 28ef3c76c9d38b82469d448b 6fadb20e35e5964af4514770 761ac718613ff917 | dcfa237943d4fd7e2a514c a54642efaccd2cdbd5003bf b19a1e70737273e1190 |
SHA-512 | 40864165b8fe332c09705b04 69619a3b899eb8cfbd08e0c4 1bca95a3becf668a0039b3f5 676f41138c2c66bb817912f7 1bd5a78d25e7bb790419cbd 2ff5ec80b | 62fd1cca53a41d60301060 6bd514b079bcf6f08ae8f93 1832d428441d3ce136316 b5d3de7858ff2d8ee4915d 27501e0d294741dc1bf68e 434e81c1c2da1958f2 |
MD5 | b41930bec4ea03fbe75653f8f a8bb005 | 1b761a9f2db00bdccfaccde c050cc732 |
Barcode | ||
QR Code | ||
French Postal Barcode (The O’s in OwO are made with Zeros) | ..|||| ..|||| | |
Gray Code |
Below is a list of some OwO variants using HTML styling. Programs and websites that don’t support HTML will only show a plain OwO, but ones that do support HTML will show exactly or something similar to what you see. Apps like Apple Notes or Google Docs, for example, will work, but won’t on things like Twitter or Instagram won’t.
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO OwO
If you’ve ever used emoji on Discord, chances are you know they aren’t exactly the norm. They are used by typing the name of the emoji surrounded by colons ( : ). For example, typing :monkey: will result in a monkey emoji. 🐒
Sure, you can put any normal emoji into Discord chats, but we like to document everything! :)
:o:w:o: | :black_circle:w:black_circle: | :large_blue_circle:w:large_blue_circle: |
:red_circle:w:red_circle: | :white_circle:w:white_circle: | :curly_loop::wavy_dash::curly_loop: |
Twitch has plenty of custom emotes, and even more if you use the BetterTTV browser extension. Twitch emotes are used by typing a specific word. For example, typing PogChamp will show .
w (VoteNay w VoteNay)
w (VoteYea w VoteYea)
w (TwitchVotes w TwitchVotes)
w (PurpleStar w PurpleStar)
w (EarthDay w EarthDay)
w (OMEGALUL w OMEGALUL) BetterTTV only
We are not associated with any of these places, got it?
Owo, Nigeria Owo High School, Nigeria Owo - Oba Road, Nigeria
Uwu, Papua New Guinea Owo Street, Nigeria OWO, Washington DC
OWO MARKET POLLING STATION, Uganda
As we near the end of this survival handbook, I reward you with a gift - a plethora of free OwO faces to use for yourself! But remember, the OwO potential is limitless, and you can create your own.
OwO ÒwÓ ÔwÔ ÓwÒ ŌwŌ ÕwÕ
ØwØ owo òwó ôwô ówò ōwō õwõ
Ōwõ õwŌ Ôwõ õwÔ ŒwŒ ÖwÖ
œwœ öwö ȌwŐ ȍwő ỜwỚ ờwớ
ÒwÒ ÓwÓ òwò ówó
UwU ÛwÛ ÙwÚ ŪwŪ ÜwÜ ÙwÙ
ÚwÚ uwu ûwû ùwú ūwū üwü ùwù
Úwú Uwu uwU owu Owu OwU uwo
uwO UwO
