Woman facepalming: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with a medium-light skin tone resting her palm against her forehead in a gesture of frustration or embarrassment. Her eyes are closed as she looks down, signaling a moment of overwhelming disbelief.

Usage Context

This is the go-to reaction for when someone says something nonsensical, makes a glaring error, or when you are simply exhausted by a situation. It serves as a visual shorthand for 'I can't believe this is happening' and is frequently used alongside 🤦 or 🙄 to highlight a sense of shared annoyance.

History

The facepalm gesture has been a universal sign of frustration for generations, but it wasn't officially added to the emoji set until Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It was introduced to help users capture complex feelings of exasperation that text-based acronyms like 'smh' often fail to fully convey.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏼‍♀

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3fc_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♀

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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