A startled bunny with big alert eyes. The ／ and ＼ slashes on each side are the tall ears, the = marks just inside the parens are whiskers or cheek lines, the ๏ Thai-script characters are wide round shocked eyes, and the x in the middle is a small puckered nose or pinched mouth. The whole face is framed by parens that read as a small round head.
This is the moment a bunny notices something — the ears go up, the eyes go wide, the body freezes. It is one of the most expressive bunny kaomoji because the ears and eyes both clearly signal alertness. Without the ears (just (=๏ x ๏=)), it would still be cute but generic. With the slash-ears, it becomes specifically rabbit.
Use it as a reaction to surprising news — when someone tells you something startling, when a plot twist happens, when you see something unexpected online. On TikTok captions, it suits content that catches viewers off-guard. On Discord and Twitter/X, it pairs with ‘wait, what?’ style replies.
The Japanese word for this exact reaction is おどろき (odoroki — surprise) or ビクッ (bikutto — the onomatopoeia for a small startled jolt). Pair with えっ？！ (‘eh?!’ — ‘what?!’), マジで？ (‘maji de?’ — ‘really?’), or simply ! by itself.