How to Generate Hidden Icons in Skype
Secret Emoticons and Symbols Make Messenger Chats More Fun
Nov 21, 2008
Most people know the classic smiley icons, created by combining for example a colon, a hyphen and a parenthesis – right parenthesis equals happy smiley, left parenthesis unhappy. These are the most traditional emoticons, expressing feelings by images instead of words in e-mails, sms texts or instant messages.
Skype offers a couple of standard smileys in animated form to click and add to a chat message. Extras like steaming coffee mug, sun, rain or a hug performed by bear help to make chatting more fun. All in all there are 72 icons to choose from.
But why not surprise friends with a few of the lesser known smileys? Just type the following words into a text messenger conversation and put them in parentheses to generate Skype's hidden icons. Warning: Some of these icons can be a bit naughtier than the standard ones.
Unusual Smileys for Skype Messenger
These emoticons represent the darker side of old smiley's character, when frustration might lead to stronger reactions – to be used carefully! Typing the word in parantheses generates the smiley described:
- (bandit) Face with balaclava
- (drunk) A drunken smiley
- (rock) A smiley making the rock / evil sign
- (smoking) A smoking smiley
- (banghead) A furious smiley banging his head against a wall
- (finger) A smiley showing his middle-finger
- (fubar) Angry smiley pointing finger at his forehead
- (swear) A swearing smiley
- (tmi) too much information – a smiley holding his hand to his face and waving aside
Human Characters to Add to a Skype Chat
These guys are having a good time – with one being rather rude:
- (toivo) A waving man and his dog
- (poolparty) Swimmer with rubber duck
- (mooning) A man dropping his pants and showing his backside
Miscellaneous – More Hidden Skype Icons
These icons might come in handy to report a bug, for instance. A few people might even want to report a squirrel! Or announce their MySpace-address:
- (bug) A black bug
- (heidy) A squirrel eating a nut
- (myspace) MySpace icon
Adding a Flag to a Skype Chat
Expressing feelings of patriotism is no problem in Skype - these serve just as examples, in alphabetical order:
- (flag:ae) Untied Arab Emirates
- (flag:au) Australia
- (flag: br) Brasil
- (flag:ca) Canada
- (flag:cn) China
- (flag:cu) Cuba
- (flag:de) Germany
- (flag:eg) Egypt
- (flag:eu) European Union
- (flag:fr) France
- (flag:hk) Hong Kong
- (flag:ie) Ireland
- (flag:id) Indonesia
- (flag:il) Israel
- (flag:iq) Iraq
- (flag:in) India
- (flag:ir Iran
- (flag:it) Italy
- (flag:jp) Japan
- (flag.lb) Lebanon
- (flag:mx) Mexico
- (flag:nz) New Zealand
- (flag:ru) Russia
- (flag:tr) Turkey
- (flag:uk) United Kingdom
- (flag:us) USA
- (flag:za) South Africa
These are just a few examples for Skype-flags – by exchanging the two letter abbreviation of the country, practically every country's flag can be generated.There even is a whole new country - after typing (flag:ss) a Skype-flag comes up. Any idea, where to find this one on a map?
All icons and emoticons presented here work with Skype version 3.0 and higher, some also with older versions.
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