Recently it has found a new life among Chinese youth as an emoticon to express a bad mood, since it also looks like a face crying out in a pictographic version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”

近来这个字在中国年轻人中重新流行，被用作字符图释，表达一种坏心情，因为这个字看起来很像爱德华•蒙克(EdvardMunch)的名画《呐喊》中大喊的人的脸。

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Recently it has found a new life among Chinese youth as an emoticon to express a bad mood, since it also looks like a face crying out in a pictographic version of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”

近来这个字在中国年轻人中重新流行，被用作字符图释，表达一种坏心情，因为这个字看起来很像爱德华•蒙克(EdvardMunch)的名画《呐喊》中大喊的人的脸。

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