Person facepalming: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium skin tone holding their hand to their forehead in a gesture of frustration, embarrassment, or disbelief. The facial expression typically shows closed eyes and a downcast mouth, signaling a moment of complete exasperation.

Usage Context

Used to express deep annoyance or the feeling that a situation is so absurd it defies explanation. It is the go-to reaction for bad jokes, illogical arguments, or realizing you made a silly mistake. People often pair it with 🤦‍♂️ or 🤦‍♀️ to specify gender, or use it alongside 🙄 when they are completely fed up with someone.

History

The facepalm gesture has been a staple of non-verbal communication for decades, but it didn't join the digital keyboard until Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It was added alongside a wave of other expressive human gestures to give users a way to react to the chaos of social media conversations without typing out a long sentence.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏽

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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