It is a yellow face with closed eyes, a wide opend mouth, covered with one hand.
It is generally used to convey boredom, tiredness, or disinterest.The?awning face menaing">? emoji can be used in text messages, social media posts, or any other written communication to express feelings of boredom or disinterest, or to show that someone is tired or sleepy. It is also often used in a playful or sarcastic manner to mock or exaggerate someone's emotional state.
Not to be confused with ? Sleepy Face or ? Sleeping Face, which often convey actually being asleep, or ? Tired Face which is tired as in "fed up".
Yawning Face was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
U+1F971
? Yawning face