If you unlocked the emoticon keyboard on your iOS device, then bookmark this page. As noted in the guide that detailed how to activate the hidden keyboard on your iOS device, it's not easy to figure out just what each of the emoticons actually mean. Thankfully, the website linked to above lists various Asian emoticons and their respective meanings. If you can't find the emoticon you want to use on that list, Wikipedia has another list of common Western and Eastern emoticons. The former are the more traditional smiley faces, with the latter looking similar to those found in the hidden keyboard.
October 20, by Mina Oh. Messaging apps such as Kakao and Facebook Messenger allow users to use colorful animated emojis. In the midst of these entertaining pixels, many still embrace writing keyboard-based emoticons and text expressions. How do Koreans laugh and communicate through texting? Photo: ExploringKorea. Korean keyboard, use H consonant. Korean keyboard, use the P and H consonants.
A Japanese ogre. A Japanese goblin. See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
I guess font support is what matters, not OS, so I combined all the horizontal ones regardless of whether they work everywhere. Paste at your own risk! I can see all of the ones under "doesn't work on crapple" on OS X Lion just fine.