Woman facepalming: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman holding her hand to her forehead in a gesture of frustration or embarrassment. Her fingers are splayed over her face, capturing the universal physical reaction to a poor decision or a ridiculous situation.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital conversations to express annoyance, disbelief, or the feeling of being overwhelmed by someone else's nonsense. It serves as a visual shorthand for 'I can't believe this is happening' and pairs perfectly with 🤦‍♂️ or 🙄 to drive the point home.

History

Facepalming became a major internet trope long before it reached emoji status, rooting itself in early 2000s forum culture. This specific version, featuring gender and skin tone modifiers, was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of an effort to make digital expressions more inclusive and representative of real-world physical reactions.

Details

Glyph

🤦🏿‍♀

Unicode

U+1F926 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f926_1f3ff_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD26;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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