Copy and paste the Yawning Face emoji (🥱) in one click. Explore its Smileys & Emotion meaning, modern texting slang, chat examples, and Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019) developer codes (U+1F971).
Unicode Definition: A yellow face with closed eyes and a wide open mouth covered loosely by a hand, caught mid-yawn.
Context & Expression: Denotes sleepiness, exhaustion, boredom, or winding down after a long exhausting day.
Context Tip: Pairing Yawning Face (🥱) with complementary emojis or tone indicators helps clarify intent across iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, and Slack.
Common in late-night texting to signal you're falling asleep, or dismissively claiming that drama is boring.
Combine 🥱 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Yawning Face emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
Still up working on those slides?
Barely keeping my eyes open 🥱 heading to sleep, will finish in the morning
Get some rest, we'll sync over coffee.
Apple includes a hand shielding the mouth; Google features a wide open cavernous mouth; Microsoft renders soft stylized eye slits.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🥱 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🥱 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🥱 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🥱 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🥱 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🥱 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Yawning Face |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F971 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🥱 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🥱 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F971 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F971} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 B1 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :yawning_face: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019) |
| Category & Subgroup | Smileys & Emotion (tired) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Denotes sleepiness, exhaustion, boredom, or winding down after a long exhausting day. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category and was standardized in Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019).
Common in late-night texting to signal you're falling asleep, or dismissively claiming that drama is boring.
Click the "Copy Emoji (🥱)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F971 (Emoji 12.0 / Unicode 12.0 (2019)). In HTML use 🥱 or 🥱; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F971"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F971}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :yawning_face:.
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