🤦️ Person facepalming emoji

The person facepalming emoji means frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, or "I cannot believe this." Use 🤦 for obvious mistakes, awkward moments, poor decisions, or exhausted reactions.

It is the neutral version of 🤦‍♂️ Man facepalming and 🤦‍♀️ Woman facepalming, useful when the facepalm matters more than gender.

Could also be called Person facepalming, facepalm, frustrated person or embarrassed person emoji.

Other meanings

facepalm, frustrated, embarrassed, disbelief, mistake, cringe, exasperated, awkward

Example Usage

I replied all by accident again 🤦

Variants

Related emoji

Expressions emojis

• 🙍️ Person frowning
• 🙍‍♂️ Man frowning
• 🙍‍♀️ Woman frowning
• 🙎️ Person pouting

Visual description

On iOS, 🤦 shows a person with one hand pressed to the forehead and eyes partly hidden. The palm on the face is the key detail.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.