Man facepalming: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium skin tone covering his face with one hand, his palm pressed against his forehead. The gesture captures a moment of intense frustration, disappointment, or realization of a foolish mistake.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to response when someone posts something baffling, shares a groan-worthy pun, or reports an avoidable blunder. It is frequently used alongside 🤦 or 🙄 to convey that words simply aren't enough to describe the level of annoyance being felt.

History

Facepalming as a gesture of exasperation has roots in ancient physical comedy and theater, but it exploded into modern digital culture through internet memes featuring celebrities like Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek. The emoji version was officially added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to represent more complex human non-verbal expressions.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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