Zzz Emoji

Smileys

A cluster of three stylized 'Z' letters, typically shown in blue or white. The characters are stacked in a staggered diagonal pattern, imitating the classic visual shorthand for someone snoring or falling asleep.

Usage Context

This is the go-to way to tell someone you are hitting the hay, feeling exhausted, or bored to tears. It is frequently used in chat threads alongside 😴 to emphasize that a conversation is putting the sender to sleep or that it is time to log off for the night.

History

These characters draw directly from 20th-century American comic strip conventions, where cartoonists used floating 'Z's to indicate a character was sound asleep. Unicode officially adopted the sign in 2010 to digitize this long-standing pop culture trope.

Details

Glyph

💤

Unicode

U+1F4A4

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4a4:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCA4;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory emotion

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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