Yet another star-watching variant. The face has ✿ flower, ˵ cheek outline, ◕ and ◕ wide bullet eyes, ᗜ a small open mouth (a Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics letter used as a tiny round mouth — between the ◡ smile of kawaii-20 and the ∀ grin of kawaii-21 in expressiveness). Stars and sparkles ✲☆.*･ unchanged.
The ᗜ mouth gives this kaomoji a distinct “wow” or “oh” energy — like the face is making a small audible sound of wonder. It is more reactive than kawaii-20’s quiet ◡, but less explicit than kawaii-21’s ∀ grin. It captures the in-between moment of awe.
Use it for awe-struck stargazing or wonder content: first-time-seeing-the-Milky-Way reactions, planetarium-visit captions, photos of unusual celestial events. On Instagram it pairs with awestruck-traveler content. On Twitter/X it works as a quote-tweet reaction to astronomy posts. On TikTok captions it suits “I can’t believe this is real” awe-content.
In Japanese the matching reaction is わぁ (waa — “woooow”) or ぽかんとした (pokan to shita — agape with wonder). Pair this kaomoji with phrases like すごい (‘sugoi’ — amazing), ほしのうみ (‘hoshi no umi’ — “sea of stars”), or なんてきれい (‘nan te kirei’ — “how beautiful”).