Sleepy Yawns! Share your sleepiness with the Yawning Face emoji, a clear symbol of tiredness.
A face with closed eyes and a hand covering a wide-open mouth, conveying a yawn. The Yawning Face emoji is commonly used to express feelings of tiredness, boredom, or needing sleep. If someone sends you a 🥱 emoji, it likely means they are feeling very sleepy, bored, or are ready for bed.
The 🥱 Yawning Face emoji represents or means tiredness, boredom, and a lack of interest in the current situation or conversation.
Simply click on the 🥱 emoji above to instantly copy it to your clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere - in messages, social media, documents, or any app that supports emojis.
The 🥱 yawning face emoji was introduced in Emoji E12.0 and is now supported across all major platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
The 🥱 yawning face emoji belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category, specifically in the Concerned Faces subcategory.
🥱 was added in Unicode 12.0 (2019) after years of user requests. Before this, people used 😴 or text to indicate tiredness. The yawning face fills the gap for sleepy but awake states - boring meetings, jet lag, needing coffee, or passive-aggressively showing boredom.
| Unicode Name | Yawning Face |
| Apple Name | Yawning Face |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+1F971 |
| Unicode Decimal | U+129393 |
| Escape Sequence | \u1f971 |
| Group | 😍 Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | 😟 Concerned Faces |
| Proposals | L2/17-432 |
| Unicode Version | 12.0 | 2019 |
| Emoji Version | 12.0 | 2019 |
| Unicode Name | Yawning Face |
| Apple Name | Yawning Face |
| Unicode Hexadecimal | U+1F971 |
| Unicode Decimal | U+129393 |
| Escape Sequence | \u1f971 |
| Group | 😍 Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | 😟 Concerned Faces |
| Proposals | L2/17-432 |
| Unicode Version | 12.0 | 2019 |
| Emoji Version | 12.0 | 2019 |