Internet users are now accustomed to using smileys, as these little faces enable them to easily represent their thoughts and emotions. Indeed, images have always had a communicative, socializing and expressive effect on language. Emojis enhance written exchanges, adding dynamism and facilitating comprehension.
In this article, we tell you about the yawning emoji 🥱, one of the newest smileys. What does the yawning face emoji mean? How to use it in your messages according to its meaning? What are its characteristics? A closer look.

🥱 Meaning and different uses of the yawning smiley
At first glance, this emoji expresses the physical fatiguethe desire to rest, or even theThe urge to sleep.
He is represented with a gaping face, his mouth open, partially hidden with one hand, his eyes closed and his eyebrows slightly curved (or without eyebrows on some messengers).
This is why it is often associated with smileys communicating a logical intention that logically follows a state of fatigue, such as the sleepy face emoji 😪, tired 😫, or even the rested emoji 😌.
This emoji can be used in messages to show more than one boredom-related states. For example, you can use it to say that you're bored with a particular discussion or situation. You can also incorporate it into a sentence that expresses hunger by associating it with a food such as a hamburger 🍔, a cake 🎂, a plate of pasta 🍝, among others...

Here are some example sentences that may include the yawning face emoji:
- I had a very hectic day, I'm going to bed 🥱.
- I have one of those hungers, a good burger would make me so happy 🥱 🍔.
- The movie was boring, I was just looking forward to going home 🥱.
The origin of the yawning emoji
This emoji belongs to the 2017 proposal, number L2/17-432. Below, we give you all the details of this proposal, including the name, the file and the name of the person who presented it.
- Number : L2/17-432
- Last name : Proposal for YAWNING FACE Emoji
- Proposed by : Jay Peters
- Year of proposal: 2017
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 1 (him alone: 🥱)
- Case : No.432, 2017 PDF: YAWNING FACE EMOJI
The yawning face emoji proposal was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2019-03-05 it was released as Emoji version 12.0
🥱 Yawning emoji features
The yawning face emoji is launched in 2019, so it is recent. Because of this, it is not yet displayed on other platforms. Moreover, it was of very low popularity at the beginning, even zero. However, over the past five years, that has changed a lot.
In this table, we detail the characteristics of this emoji.
| Version | 12.0 (2019-03-05) New |
| Usual name | yawning face |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | worried-face |
| code point | U+1F971 Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+129393 |
| unicode | 12.0 (2019-03-05) New |
| Key words | Face-tired-boredom-yawn-yawning face |
| Other names | · Exhausted emoji;
· Exhausted emoji; Exhausted emoji. |
The meaning of the yawning emoji 🥱 is not difficult to understand although it can sometimes be used a bit sarcastically. Use it with your loved ones, lovers, friends, families for more fun exchanges.






