Dream Emoji

Dream emoji copy and paste: tap the thought balloon, or take a moon, a zzz or a ready combo.

Dream Emoji

💭Thought balloonU+1F4ADReady to copy

51 items. Tap one to copy it.

Dream emoji 3

Dreaming combos 12

Night dreams 8

Daydreams 7

Wishes and goals 7

Balloons 5

Plain text 5

Lines 4

Next step The balloon’s other job: thinkingNext: zzz and the sleeping faces

How it works

The dream emoji is Thought balloon, U+1F4AD. It is the only emoji that CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files under dream, and the only one under daydream.

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One balloon, two moons

No emoji has dream in its name. The word belongs to Thought balloon, with wonder, idea and cloud. The plural is kept elsewhere: CLDR files dreams under Waxing crescent moon and Last quarter moon face, and under nothing else.

Dreaming wide awake

Wiktionary defines a daydream as a spontaneous run of waking thoughts not tied to immediate reality. For that kind, Face in clouds is the only emoji filed under absentminded. Wiktionary also has woolgathering, indulgence in daydreams, and castle in the air, a plan unlikely ever to be realized: hence Ewe and Castle.

  • Right thought bubble and Left thought bubble are plain characters, not emoji. A device with no font for them shows an empty box.
  • 夢 is the character for dream in Chinese and Japanese, by Unihan, and 梦 is its simplified form.

Questions and answers

Which emoji means dream?

Thought balloon, U+1F4AD, from Emoji 1.0. Wikipedia records that the comic balloon that conveys thoughts is often called a thought bubble.

Is there a dreaming emoji?

Not as one emoji: no face is filed under dream. Put Sleeping face before the balloon for a dream at night, which is the combo Asleep and dreaming, or Face in clouds before it for a daydream.

What is the difference between the thought balloon and the speech balloon?

Speech balloon, U+1F4AC, is for talk: CLDR files it under dialog, message, talk and typing, and Unicode’s names list calls it a comic book conversation bubble. The thought balloon is the one filed under cloud, think and dream.

All 51 items

Dream emoji 3

  • Last quarter moon face U+1F31C. The other emoji filed under dreams. Emoji 0.7.
  • Thought balloon U+1F4AD. The dream emoji. CLDR files dream under it alone, and daydream too. Emoji 1.0.
  • Waxing crescent moon U+1F312. One of two emoji filed under dreams. Mind the s. Emoji 1.0.

Dreaming combos 12

  • Asleep and dreaming Sleeping face, then thought balloon.
  • Daydreaming Face in clouds, then thought balloon, then sparkles.
  • Dream big Thought balloon, then glowing star.
  • Dream come true Thought balloon, then right arrow, then sparkles.
  • Dream holiday Thought balloon, then desert island.
  • Dream house Thought balloon, then house with garden.
  • Dream on Winking face, then thought balloon.
  • Dreaming of pizza Sleeping face, then thought balloon, then pizza.
  • Moonlit dream Crescent moon, then thought balloon, then ZZZ.
  • Only in my dreams Thought balloon, then unicorn.
  • Staring out of the window Face in clouds, then thought balloon, then window.
  • Wish upon a star Shooting star, then thought balloon.

Night dreams 8

  • Bed U+1F6CF U+FE0F. Filed under sleep. Emoji 0.7.
  • Crescent moon U+1F319. Filed under moon and crescent. Emoji 0.6.
  • Full moon face U+1F31D. Filed under full and moon. Emoji 1.0.
  • Milky way U+1F30C. Filed under space. Emoji 0.6.
  • Night with stars U+1F303. Filed under night and stars. Emoji 0.6.
  • Shooting star U+1F320. Filed under night and falling. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sleeping face U+1F634. Filed under sleep and nap. Not under dream. Emoji 1.0.
  • ZZZ U+1F4A4. Its Unicode character name is SLEEPING SYMBOL. Filed under sleep and goodnight. Emoji 0.6.
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Daydreams 7

  • Bubbles U+1FAE7. Filed under floating. Emoji 14.0.
  • Castle U+1F3F0. For a castle in the air. Emoji 0.6.
  • Cloud U+2601 U+FE0F. Filed under cloud. So is the thought balloon. Emoji 0.6.
  • Ewe U+1F411. Filed under wool, for woolgathering. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face in clouds U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F. The only emoji filed under absentminded. Emoji 13.1.
  • Unicorn U+1F984. CLDR gives it two words, face and unicorn. Emoji 1.0.
  • Window U+1FA9F. Filed under view. Emoji 13.0.

Wishes and goals 7

  • Crystal ball U+1F52E. The only emoji filed under future. Emoji 0.6.
  • Glowing star U+1F31F. Filed under shining and win. Emoji 0.6.
  • Goal net U+1F945. One of two emoji filed under goal. Emoji 3.0.
  • Light bulb U+1F4A1. Filed under idea. So is the thought balloon. Emoji 0.6.
  • Rocket U+1F680. Filed under launch. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sparkles U+2728. Filed under magic and sparkle. Emoji 0.6.
  • Trophy U+1F3C6. Filed under prize and winning. Emoji 0.6.

Balloons 5

  • Left speech bubble U+1F5E8 U+FE0F. Filed under dialog and speech. Emoji 2.0.
  • Left thought bubble U+1F5EC. The same bubble facing the other way, with the same warning.
  • Right anger bubble U+1F5EF U+FE0F. Filed under angry. Emoji 0.7.
  • Right thought bubble U+1F5ED. A plain character, not an emoji. Where no font has it, an empty box.
  • Speech balloon U+1F4AC. For talk, not thought: filed under dialog, message and typing. Emoji 0.6.

Plain text 5

  • Dream, as a Chinese and Japanese character U+5922. Unihan gives its meaning as dream; mèng in Mandarin, yume in Japanese.
  • Dream, simplified Chinese U+68A6. The simplified form of 夢, by Unihan.
  • ( ._.) . o O ( ... ) A daydream with nothing in it yet.
  • . o O ( dream ) A thought bubble typed on a keyboard: three growing circles, then the thought.
  • (-_-) zzZ . o O ( * ) A sleeper, a snore and a dream of a star.

Lines 4

  • currently daydreaming, back shortly For a status line.
  • do not wake me, the dream is getting good For a late morning.
  • dream big, nap often For a profile line.
  • in my dreams this is already finished For a to-do list.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Right thought bubble and Left thought bubble are characters in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), that the emoji list does not hold; the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt) cross-references the first from Thought balloon and glosses Speech balloon as a comic book conversation bubble. That the balloon for thoughts is called a thought bubble is from Wikipedia, Speech balloon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_balloon, CC BY-SA 4.0). Daydream, woolgathering and castle in the air are as Wiktionary defines them (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daydream, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woolgathering, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castle_in_the_air, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. The meaning and readings of 夢 and its simplified form 梦 are from the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). The typed faces, the lines and the combo names are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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