A three-character scene: a sad bear, a flower-haired girl, and a determined small bear. The first face uses ▼ as a bear snout and ᴥ as the iconic bear-nose-and-mouth marker (a Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics character that has become the standard kaomoji bear-mouth). The •̥ undermarks on the eyes are wet shines — small tears. The middle face has ✿ a flower in the hair and °U° wide round eyes with a small u-shaped mouth, plus ♡ for affection. The last bear uses ʕ ʔ — the standard “bear bracket” pair, with •́ •̀ pointed-down concerned eyes and ๑ a chubby cheek mark.
The ʕ…ʔ brackets are the most recognizable bear-frame convention in kaomoji, used since around 2010 in Japan. The ᴥ mouth pairs only with these brackets — combined, they unmistakably mean “this face is a bear.”
Use this longer multi-character kaomoji as a tiny scene-illustration in posts about pets and plush toys, K-pop fanart captions where you want a soft-aesthetic scene, or as a comment on wholesome animal content. On Discord and Twitter/X it works as a decorative response. The composition is too elaborate to use as inline punctuation — best in standalone reactions.
In Japanese the matching word is くまさん (kuma-san — “Mr./Ms. Bear”). Pair with phrases like かわいい (‘kawaii’ — cute), ぎゅーって (‘gyū-tte’ — hug-squeeze), or なかよし (‘nakayoshi’ — close friends).