Perhaps you too have found while reading through RTH that a couple of Hanzi make for some pretty good smileys.

For example, 少 kind of looks like a smiling person -- you have his two eyes (that admittedly are closed, maybe it's someone taking a good nap), his nose and a long smile.

Then there's 公, which always reminds me of an older man with a kind of somber expression.

Please add to this list!

I don't mean to be a downer but I don't think that's worth it - I can't speak for the Chinese but I'm very used to reading japanese kanji, and that no longer looks like a smiley or a meaningless scribble to me, I actually just *see* "sukoshi" or "few"/"cou" or "public". Now bearing in mind that I'm only a year or two into kanji proficiency, for the chinese...

P.S. I bet you didn't notice that the word "eye" looks a little bit like a face too

Yes, I see your point, but I think this would be more geared to using them within English to avoid confusion. Kind of hard for me to find a face in 目 mu but to each his own ;-)

冏 is used as a smiley a lot, but it isn't confusing because it's essentially never used in modern Chinese.

I just realized that 習 (try viewing it in Kaiti, 72 point font) can look like a horrified person with bags under his eyes and bared teeth. The drop on 'white' serves as a mustache. Not really the association you want to have with 'learn'.