U+1F926
🤦 Person facepalming
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- People Gestures
- Also known as
- face palm
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 9.0 (2016)
- Emoji version
- 3.0 (2016)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🤦 emoji means
A hand pressed to the forehead. Exasperation at something obviously wrong — usually said, not done.
Aimed at other people far more often than at oneself. Comes in male and female forms plus five skin tones; the neutral one is the safest default.
Chat examples
Will your readers see 🤦
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🤦 emoji is used
The 🤦 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how person facepalming is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🤦 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Skin tone · Gender
- 🤦 person facepalming
- 🤦🏻 person facepalming: light skin tone
- 🤦🏼 person facepalming: medium-light skin tone
- 🤦🏽 person facepalming: medium skin tone
- 🤦🏾 person facepalming: medium-dark skin tone
- 🤦🏿 person facepalming: dark skin tone
- 🤦♂️ man facepalming
- 🤦🏻♂️ man facepalming: light skin tone
- 🤦🏼♂️ man facepalming: medium-light skin tone
- 🤦🏽♂️ man facepalming: medium skin tone
- 🤦🏾♂️ man facepalming: medium-dark skin tone
- 🤦🏿♂️ man facepalming: dark skin tone
- 🤦♀️ woman facepalming
- 🤦🏻♀️ woman facepalming: light skin tone
- 🤦🏼♀️ woman facepalming: medium-light skin tone
- 🤦🏽♀️ woman facepalming: medium skin tone
- 🤦🏾♀️ woman facepalming: medium-dark skin tone
- 🤦🏿♀️ woman facepalming: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | person facepalming |
|---|---|
| Русский | человек потерял дар речи |
| Deutsch | sich an den Kopf fassende Person |
| Español | persona con la mano en la frente |
| Français | personne avec la paume sur le visage |
| Polski | osoba trzymająca się za czoło |
| Dansk | slå sig for panden |
| Українська | людина з долонею до обличчя |
| Português | pessoa decepcionada |
Unicode CLDR 48