what does xD mean

It's an "emoticon". A symbol used to express a happy feeling. It's same as the wide smile emoticon ":D" . I hope I were helpful. Good luck and keep smiling! :D

Yep, it's an emoticon. The way it was explained to me, the X is because the person is crossing their eyes or making a weird face (kinda like the 'doh' emoticon here), and the D is a big toothy grin.

Well, I recognized the toothy grin or big smile part. I thought the x was because they were smiling so big they had crinkles at the corners of their eyes. Isn't :P someone sticking out their tongue? Will someone please publish a pictionary for these cuties?

This may be of some help. I came across these keyboards strokes to give a cute (or not so cute) touch to your postings. Some are cute but some I just don't get! Faces Keyboard Shortcut Emoticons :) Smiley Face :-D Very happy face / Smile with Teeth :o Shocked or Suprised Face Oh my god! ;) Winking Smiley Cheeky! :s Confused Smiley Drunk / intoxicated?! :') Crying Animated Smiley :( Sad Smiley (A) Angel face :-# Shhhhhh! / Don't tell! # is a hash sign - sounds a bit like shhhhh :-* I'll tell you a secret! :^) I don't know! :-P Poking tongue out smiley :$ Embarassed / Red Faced Smiley :@ Angry Face (6) Devil Smiley 666 = number of the devil 8o| Baring Teeth Smiley ^o) Sarcastic Smiley +o( Sick / Poorly Smiley *-) Thinking Face 8-) Eye rolling face (@) Cat face @ sounds like cat! (&) Dog face 8-| Nerd (Face with Glasses)

hi doormouse I am glad you asked that question as I have seen these 'too and not had a clue. so now we both know, a wide grin, and x for crossed eyes wow. who would've have known. but me I willjust use the emoticons and let it go at that. nice you got two nice quick responses to clear up the mystery of xD.

I always think of it as a pictogram. The X part is a persons eyes ,shut with laughter and the D part is a big wide grin. I like emoticons,they are so creative .

I have never come across that xD in any discussion and it is interesting to know what it means. I have no idea but would like to know too.

i also noticed this with some of my friends discussions. i thought that X is the hug and D is the smile. now i know, it is a BIG SMILE.

Well i see people mostly answered that it is the equivalent of :D and they directed you to wikipedia. Well here is an attached picture of how it looks on deviant art (it's a bit different from your regular :D) Hope this helps

I have seen a few of these on a few of my posts aswell and i think they are a happy smile.But there are alot of different ones about i think.

doormouse it seems that you are not into the recent smilely faces do you know (= or xD or X) there are so many new ones out there everyone can create there own is all about imagination you should try it and then when it becomes famous you can say you created that xD

I am behind on discussions and the xD I really don't have a clue. I should have read all the discussion but I didn't ---but I will LOL

xD means that big big smile. Like when you smile or laugh. Is like a person squeezing the eyes and giving a big smile.

A smiley is when you use text to create a digital face to add an emotion or just to accent your message. When I say accent I mean to give extra meaning to the message, not a foreign voice :). In a common smiley like this: :) , The colon signifies two eyes, and the bracket is the mouth. If transferred to the smiley you'd like to know about, the x are the eyes (I also took a while to see what they're supposed to be) and the D provides the mouth, giving an overall funny, laughing face: xD. Truly a masterpiece of the internet.

xD just like XD is used as in a laughing face