😩 Meaning: What does the exhausted face emoji mean?

The emoji 😩 expresses the’exhaustion, weariness and despondency. It conveys a sense of mental and physical emptiness or deep disappointment. Depending on the context, it can also mean boredom, sadness, frustration, or missing someone.

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😩 Meaning and use of the tired smiley

It's called exhausted face emoji because her face combines raised eyebrows, of the with my eyes closed bent downward, and a mouth slightly open in a semicircle. The drooping corners suggest a half-yawn or a deep sigh of weariness.

This emoji is one of the smileys that express disappointment and theallowance. Here are the emotions he expresses:

• The fatigue both physical and mental
• The pain
• The sadness
• L'boredoma bit like the confused face emoji 😖
• The frustration or the feeling of being at a loss
• the mental and physical emptiness

Be aware that the meaning can vary depending on the context. On the social networks, 😩 can also be used in a ironic, to blow a minor everyday hassle out of proportion. He even takes on a tone emotional when you say you miss someone.

It is similar to other emojis related to exhaustion or sadness: 😫 (tired face), 😪 (sleeping face), 😴 (sleeping face), 😭 (a face crying hot tears) or even 😥 (a sad but relieved expression). Here are a few examples of how to use it in everyday life:

1. I'm so bored 😩.
2. I can't wait for the day to end so I can go home 😩.
3. I miss my cat terribly 😩.
4. I'm just not in the right frame of mind for this 😩.

To use it, you can to copy from your mobile emoji keyboard, or simply copy and paste 😩. Its code HTML is 😩 and its encoding in a URL is %F0%9F%98%A9.

Origin of this exhausted face emoji

The emoji 😩 didn't just appear out of nowhere. It comes from two proposals filed with the Consortium Unicode, in 2007 then in 2009. Each of these two files listed 753 emojis candidates for official encoding.

• Proposal L2/07-257 (2007) : the draft “Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols“, presented by Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi and Mark Davis.
• Proposal L2/09-026 (2009) : “Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding“, also supported by Peter Edberg and Yasuo Kida to Apple, and Darick Tong to Google.

His coded Unicode U+1F629 was first approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Its official name in English is “Weary Face“, which literally means ‘exhausted face.’.

It was then incorporated into the standard Emoji 1.0 June 9, 2015. Since then, you can find it on just about every platform, from Apple at Google via Samsung and Twitter.

Emojis belong to several major categories Unicode : smileys and emotions, people and bodies, animals and nature, food and drinks, travel and places, activities, objects, symbols, flags. 😩 belongs to the category emoticons and emotions, subcategory worried expression.

😩 : The characteristics of this emoji

The emoji exhausted face shows raised eyebrows, of the with my eyes closed and an mouth slightly open. It reflects a severe fatigue, a case of having had enough, or a frustration accepted.

It is often confused with the a dejected face with a bead of sweat 😓. The distinction is simple: 😩 expresses the’mental or physical exhaustion, the feeling of being at a loss, even though 😓 primarily reflects the stress or discomfort, with that little cold drop that says, “Phew, that was hot.”.

Here are the technical details for this emoji, which are useful if you want to copy it or check its code:

The next time you see 😩 in a comment or message, you'll know exactly how the other person is feeling.

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