"Henohenomoheji" face-like pictographs are created by playing around with and arranging seven hiragana phonetic syllables to form the caricature of a human face as a picture (letter picture).
へのへのもへじは、これら7つの平仮名のみを使い人の顔を模した図柄を描く文字遊び（文字絵）である。