Person facepalming: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with light skin covering their face with one hand, palm pressed against the forehead in a gesture of frustration. The face is turned slightly downward as if reacting to an embarrassing or foolish situation.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to response for incompetence, bad jokes, or situations that leave you feeling defeated. It is the visual equivalent of shaking your head at a poor decision. People frequently use it alongside 😩 or 🙄 to highlight feelings of annoyance or total exhaustion with someone else’s behavior.

History

Facepalm was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. The gesture itself has deep roots in internet culture, gaining massive popularity on forums and social media in the late 2000s as a way to mock failed logic or cringeworthy online interactions before it was ever turned into a graphical icon.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏻

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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