The two most familiar Chinese emoticons are Orz (a man on his hands and knees, head on the floor in desperation or defeat) and XD (which is a smiling face with eyes scrunched when rotated 90 degrees clockwise).
舉凡 Orz（狀似一人跪地膜拜，形容崇拜得五體投地；另一說則是沮喪得倒在地上、不可置信的意思）、XD（翻轉 90 度來看，貌似笑臉），都是將英文字母圖像化的用法。