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 Google
Category Smileys
Subcategory emotion
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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