Person facepalming: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned person pressing their palm firmly against their forehead, fingers splayed to cover their eyes. The expression conveys deep frustration, embarrassment, or disbelief at a foolish situation.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to response for bad news, illogical arguments, or realizing you made a silly mistake. It is often used alongside 🤦 or 🙄 to highlight a moment of pure exasperation or when words fail to describe how frustrating something is.

History

Facepalming as a gesture of frustration has been part of physical human expression for ages, but it gained massive traction as an internet meme in the 2000s, often paired with the 'Captain Picard' facepalm from Star Trek. This specific emoji version was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the Emoji 3.0 update, finally giving users a way to express collective 'smh' moments without typing it out.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏿

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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