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Henohenomoheji (へのへのもへじ) or hehenonomoheji (へへののもへじ) is a face drawn by Japanese schoolchildren using hiragana characters.

The word breaks down into the seven hiragana characters he, no, he, no, mo, he, ji. The first two "he" are the eyebrows, the two "no" are the eyes, the "mo" is a nose, and the last "he" is the mouth. The outline of the face is made by the character "ji", with the dakuten forming the ear. Children use henohenomoheji as the faces of kakashi (scarecrows).

Variations

Other versions may have been current in other epochs and places. Japanese-Brazilians who learned hiragana in the 1950s, in the State of São Paulo, report that they were not taught to draw the "ji", and thus left the face unframed, as in the henohenomohe shown at right.

Other people from the same epoch but from a different town report that they learned to draw a big "no" around the face, instead of the "ji" (not shown).

Others have drawn it with an "e" (え) at the end, which is drawn under the "ji" to form a neck.

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