henohenomoheji へのへのもへじ

In Japanese, henohenomoheji へのへのもへじ refers to a face drawn using the hiragana characters he へ for eyebrows and mouth, no の for eyes, mo も for nose, and ji じ for outline, though this last ji じ is often omitted.

It's also called hehenonomoheji へへののもへじ.

Character: Moegi Emo 萌黄えも
Anime: Kiratto Pri☆chan, キラッとプリ☆チャン (Season 2) (Episode 20)

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Examples

For reference, some examples of henohenomoheji:

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Anime: En'en no Shouboutai 炎炎ノ消防隊 (Episode 24)

Character: Sakuragi Hinako 桜木ひな子
Anime: Hinako Note, ひなこのーと (Episode 1)

• kakashi
  案山子
  Scarecrow.

Anime: Toradora! とらドラ！ (Episode 8)

• teruteru bouzu
  てるてる坊主
  A charm used to control the rain.

Anime: Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 (Episode 射手座の日)

• mobu kyara
  モブキャラ
  Mob character. Background character.

Manga: Mahoujin Guruguru 魔法陣グルグル (Chapter 4, ジェム平原)

• Context: Kukuri ククリ correctly drew a "magic circle," mahoujin 魔法陣, but only after countless failures. She shows the failed magic circles to Nike ニケ.
• hora
  ほら
  See.
• ...
• sappari sappari
  さっぱりさっぱり
  (in this series, the sappari fairy is summoned whenever something silly happens.)
  • sappari
    さっぱり
    Completely. Specially in the sense of completely clean. (mimetic word.)
    (typically used as an abbreviation of)
  • sappari wakaranai
    さっぱりわからない
    To completely not know.
    To have absolutely no idea.
• shippai
  しっぱい
  Failure.

By the way, sometimes characters' eyes are drawn like the no の character due to the iris being at the corner of the eye. This may get called nonojinome 「の」の字の目.

Character: Shinonome Nano 東雲なの
Anime: Nichijou 日常 (Episode 7)

References

• へのへのもへじ - dic.nicovideo.jp, accessed 2020-03-18.