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笑顔 /e ga o/ is widely used, literally means 'smiling face' but also means 'smile'. The word for smile itself is 笑み /e mi/ from which a beautiful word is made and used usually in literary or emotional cases: it's written both 微笑み /ho ho e mi/ and 頬笑み /ho ho e mi/, where in the first one the beginning kanji (微) means 'tiny, minute,faint', and in the second the beginning kanji means 'cheek'.

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