Sleepy face
Emoji 1.0 ยท Smileys & Emotion ยท :sleepy:
Also known as: crying, face, good, night, sad, sleep, sleeping, sleepy, tired
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Sleepy face Means
People reach for ๐ช when they mean crying, face, good, night, sad and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Sleepy face is one of the smileys & emotion emoji, alongside ๐ ๐ ๐คค ๐ด ๐ซฉ and others in the same family.
History & Platforms
Sleepy face was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ช is the single code point U+1F62A, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :sleepy:.
How To Use ๐ช
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ช๐๐ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :sleepy: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.