Yawning Face Emoji
A hand-covered yawn, meaning tired — or that something is boring.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Yawning Face emoji mean?
A hand-covered yawn, meaning tired — or that something is boring.
Tired, and sometimes pointedly so. Sent in reply to a message it says the topic is boring, which is a good deal ruder than it looks.
How to use 🥱 naturally
Late nights, early mornings and dismissing a topic as dull.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🥱
- 2019
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Yawning Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. A broad release, and the one that filled in several long-standing gaps.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A hand raised to a wide open mouth with tired eyes. Added in 2019, filling a gap the sleepy and weary faces had been covering badly.
- Today
How its use evolved
Late nights, early mornings and dismissing a topic as dull.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🥱 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Slide forty of ninety 🥱
Up too late, again 🥱
Another update about the update 🥱
When to use it
Using 🥱 clearly
Late nights, early mornings and dismissing a topic as dull. It lands as yawning face emoji or 🥱 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the yawning face emoji
What does 🥱 mean in a text message?
A hand-covered yawn, meaning tired — or that something is boring. Tired, and sometimes pointedly so. Sent in reply to a message it says the topic is boring, which is a good deal ruder than it looks.
Is 🥱 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are yawning face emoji, 🥱 meaning, bored emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥱 look different on another device?
U+1F971 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the yawning face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🥱 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the yawning face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥱 as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🥱 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F971 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🥱 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥱 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F971 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F971} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B1 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F971
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- yawning face emoji🥱 meaningbored emoji
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