🤦 Person Facepalming Emoji

🤦 Copy & Paste

🤦	Google Noto Color Emoji (Unicode 15.1)

🤦 Meaning

The "person facepalming" emoji 🤦 features a person with a hand covering their face, indicating disbelief or exasperation. This gesture captures a moment of embarrassment, frustration, or disbelief, showcasing moments when words just aren't enough. It often conveys feelings like "I can't believe this is happening" or "Oh no, not again!" Virtually, it's used to show a reaction to an unfortunate or silly action by oneself or others, magnifying the emotional impact of the facepalm through this visual cue.

Text examples:

Just read my test date wrong and missed it 🤦📅
Can't believe you forgot your password again! 🤦💻
Why did I think staying up all night before the interview was a good idea? 🤦☕
He bought the wrong tickets! Now we’re seeing a movie I’ve watched twice! 🤦🎬
That moment you realize you sent the sarcastic work email to your boss 🤦💻

Unicode CLDR emoji annotations:

Short name: person facepalming

Keywords: disbelief | exasperation | face | palm | person facepalming

This emoji is also known as:

Facepalm Emoji

Categories: 🧑 Gender: Neutral/Person, 🙍 Gestures

The 🤦 emoji is often associated with the following emojis:
😑🙄😣🤦‍♀️👎🤦‍♂️

🤦 Images

Google

Noto Color Emoji 15.1

Google

Noto Emoji 15.0

OpenMoji

OpenMoji 15.0

Twitter / X

Twemoji 14.0

🤦 Support

Google

Android 7.0+

🤦 Gender Versions

Person (gender-neutral):

🤦 Person Facepalming

Male:

🤦‍♂️ Man Facepalming

Female:

🤦‍♀️ Woman Facepalming

🤦 Skin Tone Versions

Version without skin tone modifier:

🤦 Person Facepalming

Versions with a skin tone modifier applied:

🤦🏻 Person Facepalming: Light Skin Tone
🤦🏼 Person Facepalming: Medium-Light Skin Tone
🤦🏽 Person Facepalming: Medium Skin Tone
🤦🏾 Person Facepalming: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
🤦🏿 Person Facepalming: Dark Skin Tone

🤦 Image History

Google

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean: ❌
Android 4.4 KitKat: ❌
Android 5.1 Lollipop: ❌
Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow: ❌
Android 7.1.1 Nougat: ✅
Android 8.0 Oreo: ✅
Android 9.0 Pie: ✅
Android 10.0: ✅
Android 11.0: ✅
Android 12L: ✅

Noto Emoji 15.0: ✅
Noto Color Emoji 15.0: ✅
Noto Color Emoji 15.1: ✅

Mozilla

FxEmojis 1.7.9: ❌

OpenMoji

OpenMoji 13.1: ✅
OpenMoji 14.0: ✅

Twitter / X

Twemoji 2.3: ✅
Twemoji 12.1.5: ✅
Twemoji 13.1: ✅
Twemoji 14.0: ✅

🤦 Translate: Person Facepalming Emoji in other languages

Language	Shortname
Arabic	شخص محبط
Chinese	捂脸
Chinese (Traditional)	哦不
French	personne avec la paume sur le visage
German	sich an den Kopf fassende Person
Hindi	माथे पर हाथ
Italian	persona esasperata
Japanese	ひたいに手をあてる人
Korean	골치 아파하는 사람
Portuguese	pessoa decepcionada
Spanish	persona con la mano en la frente
Turkish	yüzünü eliyle kapama
🤦 emoji in over 100 languages
Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v43

🤦 Unicode Data

Unicode Code Point(s)	🤦: U+1F926
Unicode Version	Unicode 9.0
Emoji Version	Emoji 3.0

🤦 Codes

Shortcode (Discord)	:person_facepalming:
Shortcode (GitHub)	:facepalm:
Shortcode (Slack)	:face_palm:
HTML Dec	🤦
HTML Hex	🤦
CSS	\01F926
C, C++ & Python	\U0001f926
Java, JavaScript & JSON	\uD83E\uDD26
Perl	\x{1F926}
PHP & Ruby	\u{1F926}
Punycode	xn--fq9h
URL Escape Code	%F0%9F%A4%A6

🔠 Emoji Categories » 🧑 Gender: Neutral/Person

🔠 Emoji Categories » 🙍 Gestures