U+1F62A · emoji since 2010
The sleepy face has a little bubble that people read as either a snot bubble or a drowsy sigh, but online it almost always means tired. Eyes drooping, ready for bed.
Send it when you're worn out, fighting to stay awake, or hinting that it's well past your bedtime. A gentle, harmless kind of exhausted.
In texting, 😪 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 😪 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Sleepy Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the sleepy face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 😪 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.