Yawning face emoji 🥱
🥱 is the yawning face: eyes shut, a hand covering a wide-open yawn. It means tired or bored — bedtime, a long day, or a pointed “this is dull” at someone else’s story.
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What the yawning face 🥱 emoji means
🥱 is the yawning face: eyes shut, a hand covering a wide-open yawn. It means tired or bored — bedtime, a long day, or a pointed “this is dull” at someone else’s story. Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019), it is the polite version of boredom: the hand over the mouth keeps it from being rude, which is why it works as gentle sarcasm (“another meeting about the meeting 🥱”). For being asleep use 😴 sleeping face; for exhausted-but-awake, face with bags under eyes.
Unicode name: yawning face · U+1F971 · Emoji 12.0 (2019) · group: Smileys & Emotion.
How people use it
- Tired: late nights, early alarms
- Bored: lectures, long stories, slow games
- Unimpressed: “heard it before 🥱”
- Bedtime: signing off for the night
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| yawning faceU+1F971 | Tired or bored yawn | |
| sleeping faceU+1F634 | Asleep, Zzz | |
| sleepy faceU+1F62A | Drowsy, nodding off | |
| expressionless faceU+1F611 | Done, flat | |
| face with bags under eyesU+1FAE9 | Exhausted |
Questions people ask
What does 🥱 mean?
Yawning: tired, sleepy or bored. When aimed at someone else’s story it means “boring”.
What does 🥱 mean from a guy?
Either he is tired and heading to bed, or he is teasing that something is dull. Tone of the message decides.
Is 🥱 rude?
It can be if it is a reply to something someone cared about. Between friends it is playful sarcasm.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
