Woman facepalming: light skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with a light skin tone resting her hand against her forehead. Her eyes are closed in a gesture of intense frustration, weariness, or disbelief.
Usage Context
Used to react to someone saying something foolish, a bad decision, or a moment of pure annoyance. It serves as a visual shorthand for 'I can't believe this,' often paired with 😩 to emphasize a sense of hopelessness or exhaustion.
History
Part of the Unicode 9.0 update in 2016, this emoji was added to address the growing demand for complex gestural expressions in digital messaging. It was created by combining the base facepalm emoji with gender and skin tone modifiers to allow for more specific personal representation.
Details
Glyph
🤦🏻♀
Unicode
U+1F926 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f926_1f3fb_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
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
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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