person facepalming Emoji
🤦 · U+1F926 · Emoji 3.0
What does the person facepalming emoji mean?
Unlike its literal depiction of someone placing their hand on their face, the 🤦 emoji is often used figuratively to express embarrassment, frustration, or exasperation, typically in response to a foolish or absurd situation. This emoji can also convey a sense of disbelief or disappointment, as if the user is throwing up their hands in surrender. In slang, 🤦 is used to react to a ridiculous or annoying statement, often with a tone of playful mockery or sarcasm. Facepalming is a universal gesture of dismay, and the 🤦 emoji effectively captures this sentiment in digital communication.
person facepalming in every skin tone
This emoji takes a Fitzpatrick modifier. Click any tone to copy it.
person facepalming emoji examples
- just saw the most ridiculous video and I'm dead 🤦
- you spent all your money on that?! 🤦
How to copy the person facepalming emoji
To use the person facepalming emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F926), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
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person facepalming emoji on different platforms
How the person facepalming emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.
person facepalming Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🤦 |
| Name | person facepalming |
| Category | People & Body |
| Codepoints | U+1F926 |
| Shortcode | :facepalm: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 3.0 (2016) |
person facepalming Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F926, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :facepalm:.
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