Person facepalming: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone pressing their palm against their forehead. The expression clearly signals frustration, embarrassment, or the feeling of being overwhelmed by someone else's mistake.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital conversations to express 'smh' or disbelief when encountering bad takes, obvious blunders, or general absurdity. It is the go-to reaction for when words fail you and you need to physically signal your annoyance, often paired with 😩 or 🙄.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the expansion of facial expressions, the gesture itself has long been a staple of internet culture. It grew from a popular meme format on early 2010s forums where users would post photos of people burying their faces in their hands to punctuate a failing argument or a cringeworthy moment.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏼

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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