🤦️ Person facepalming emoji
HTML
🤦
Unicode
U+1F926
What is 🤦️ called?
🤦️ is called the Person facepalming emoji.
Often called the facepalm person, frustrated person, or embarrassed person. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.
What does 🤦️ mean?
🤦 is officially named person facepalming. It shows a person pressing one hand against the forehead or face and commonly communicates frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, exasperation, or “I cannot believe this”.
Use it for an obvious mistake, awkward moment, poor decision, repeated error, cringe, or exhausted disappointment. The base character does not specify gender. Related choices include 🤦♂️ Man facepalming and 🤦♀️ Woman facepalming.
Other meanings
It can mean facepalm, frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, mistake, cringe, exasperation, awkwardness, or regret.
Example Usage
I replied all by accident again 🤦
The keys were in my pocket the whole time 🤦
More details
Officially named person facepalming. Its code point is U+1F926. It was introduced in Emoji 3.0. It is the gender-neutral base character and supports skin-tone modifiers.
Variants
Related emoji
Expressions emojis
Visual description
A neutrally styled person is shown with one palm covering part of the face, usually with the head tilted slightly down.
The posture is the defining clue; hair, clothing, and facial details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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