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
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category Smileys
Subcategory emotion
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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