# Emoticons

**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145
**Category:** Forum Feedback
**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145 "2025-09-09T18:13:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![MeatballDev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/meatballdev/32/28502_2.png) [@MeatballDev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/MeatballDev)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/1 "2025-09-09T18:13:23Z")

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If I do : ) it will automatically convert to 🙂

please disable that if possible, its extremely annoying, if I put an emoticon i want an emoticon and thats most likely to be the case for everyone

_Poll ([view on site](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/1))_

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### Author: ![redSprite](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/redsprite/32/34262_2.png) [@redSprite](https://forum.makecode.com/u/redSprite)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/2 "2025-09-09T23:25:48Z")

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You can actually.

:)

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### Author: ![WoofWoof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/woofwoof/32/32523_2.png) [@WoofWoof](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WoofWoof)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/3 "2025-09-09T23:27:23Z")

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If you put a backslash in between the two characters, it will prevent it. 🙂  
Wait no it won’t…  
Ummmm  
: )  
Yikes… that’s annoying… hmm  
🙂  
Nope that didn’t work either…  
🙂  
Google’s AI suggestion didn’t work 🙄  
[This would be the fix if we wanted the mods to disable it site-wide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-emoji-shortcuts/193297)  
:)  
Oooooo I found a workaround!  
` :<anyLetter>)`  
That’s really annoying to type out! Even though it can just be a single letter (numbers don’t work).  
:)

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### Author: ![Luke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/luke/32/32519_2.png) [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/4 "2025-09-11T16:50:36Z")

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Amazing!!! :D

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### Author: ![not\_a\_lemon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/not_a_lemon/32/35289_2.png) [@not\_a\_lemon](https://forum.makecode.com/u/not_a_lemon)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/5 "2025-09-12T12:41:25Z")

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Yay :D

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### Author: ![BlobDev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/blobdev/32/25519_2.png) [@BlobDev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BlobDev)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/6 "2025-09-14T19:40:58Z")

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👴 it just goes to this for me 🤷‍♂️

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### Author: ![redSprite](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/redsprite/32/34262_2.png) [@redSprite](https://forum.makecode.com/u/redSprite)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/emoticons/39145/7 "2025-09-15T02:59:05Z")

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Why is the D in the clickable color