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🥱 Yawning face

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🥱 Emoji meaning

I'm dog-tired! Exhausted, bored, and sleepless.

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🥱 Meaning

I am dog-tired! The eyes are closed and the hand covers a yawn. The night was too short, you couldn't get enough sleep. Indication that a topic or a person is not of interest, but rather boring.

Examples

What a long day! 🥱
Are you this tired too? 🥱
I could fall asleep right now. 🥱

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Yawning face

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Sleepy face vs yawning face; both represent drowsiness or boredom.

Yawning face

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ZZZ vs yawning face; both indicate tiredness or needing rest.

Same Emotion

Yawning face

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Frowning face with open mouth

Yawning vs frowning with open mouth; small yawning detail vs surprise can be hard to see.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Yawning face” was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bedtime + face + goodnight + nap + night + sleep + sleepy + whatever + yawning + zzz

Keywords removed

- yawning face

In the release of Emoji 12.0 and Unicode 12.0 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bored + tired + yawn + yawning face

Similar emojis from "Sleepy and Unwell"

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Sleepy and Unwell

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Comments

(3) Comments

Rico 9/20/2025
Really want to talk to you, but need to continue later. Simply too tired and falling asleep.
Jo 7/30/2025
I reject you because you are very arrogant and I am not interested.
Mayweda 6/7/2025
I use this when the conversation is boring.