🤦♀️ Woman facepalming emoji
HTML
🤦,8205,9792,65039;
Unicode
U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
What is 🤦♀️ called?
🤦♀️ is called the Woman facepalming emoji.
Often called the facepalm woman, frustrated woman, or embarrassed woman. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.
What does 🤦♀️ mean?
🤦♀️ is officially named woman facepalming. It shows a woman 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. This sequence explicitly selects a woman; use the neutral version when gender is irrelevant. Related choices include 🤦 Person facepalming and 🤦♂️ Man facepalming.
Other meanings
It can mean facepalm, frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, mistake, cringe, exasperation, awkwardness, or regret.
Example Usage
She realised the file was still in drafts 🤦♀️
The woman left her ticket on the kitchen table 🤦♀️
More details
Officially named woman facepalming. Its fully qualified sequence is U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. It was introduced in Emoji 4.0. This ZWJ sequence combines the base gesture with the female sign and supports skin-tone modifiers.
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Visual description
A female-presenting 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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