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Yawning Face Emoji 🥱

Mid-stretch, eyes shut and a hand politely over an open mouth, yawning face is plain tiredness more often than anything else. People also send it on purpose to signal, politely, that a conversation has run on long enough.

What 🥱 means

A yellow face with raised and closed eyes and a big 'O' for a mouth that is being covered with a yellow hand. The colour of the hand would differ between different platforms.

The 🥱 Yawning Face emoji can be used in various contexts. While it signifies the obvious; sleepiness, it can also mean exhaustion, boredom, "done for the day" and also as a way of throwing shade at someone.

How and when to use it

Use this emoji as a way of telling someone you're bored with whatever they're talking about.
You can also use this emoji in its literal sense; to signal that you're going to bed, sleeping, 'crashing', or hitting the sack in other fancy words.
If someone's been telling you about something that you have absolutely no interest in, send this emoji as a reaction when they ask "So, what do you think?" (terrible idea, but worth the try).
This emoji can be used in the context of showing exhaustion too, like after a long day at work or something like that.

Other Names

🥱 Bored
🥱 Bugged
🥱 Sleepy
🥱 Disinterested
🥱 Throw Shade
🥱 Fed Up
🥱 Sarcastic
🥱 Not Interested

🥱 in real conversations

What does 🥱 mean in texting?

Boredom, mostly — literal sleepiness or a jab at something putting the sender to sleep. 'This meeting could've been an email 🥱' is the classic complaint; it can also just mean it's 2am and eyes are closing.

What does 🥱 mean from a girl?

Often calling something dull without saying so directly — a dry reply, a bragging text, a slow date story. 'Cool story 🥱' reads as unimpressed, not literally tired.

Is 🥱 rude to send?

Depends on the target. Sent about a slow Tuesday it's harmless; sent as a direct reply to someone's message it reads as 'you're boring me,' which lands as a mild insult.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-concerned
Codepoints: U+1F971
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :yawning_face:
Keywords: bedtime, bored, face, goodnight, nap, night, sleep, sleepy, tired, whatever, yawn, yawning, zzz

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.