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 Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory emotion

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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