Person facepalming: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin pressing their palm against their forehead, fingers splayed over their eyes. This gesture captures a moment of intense frustration, embarrassment, or disbelief.

Usage Context

Used to react to foolish comments, bad news, or a ridiculous situation that makes you want to hide your face. It is the go-to response for 'I can't believe this is happening' or when someone says something particularly dim-witted. It is frequently paired with the 😩 or 🙄 emojis to emphasize a sense of profound annoyance.

History

The facepalm gesture has been a universal sign of exasperation long before the internet, but it became a staple of early 2000s meme culture. The emoji version was officially added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a set of human-specific expressions to help digital chat reflect complex physical body language.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏾

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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