Person Facepalming slaps a hand to their face. It is also known as the facepalm emoji. 🤦 Person Facepalming is an emoji from the People & Body category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F926 and it was released in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🤦 Person Facepalming mean?
Person Facepalming slaps a hand to their face. It shows disbelief, frustration or embarrassment at something foolish — your own mistake or someone else's.
🤦 Person Facepalming is part of the “Gestures” set in the People & Body emoji category. You will see it in chats and captions related to again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation and facepalm. Person Facepalming has been available since Emoji 3.0 (2016), so it displays on almost all current devices. It supports five skin tones: 🤦🏻 🤦🏼 🤦🏽 🤦🏾 🤦🏿. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :facepalm: to insert it.
Person Facepalming skin tones & variations
Click to copy a variation:
Person Facepalming emoji codes
| Emoji | 🤦 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F926 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🤦 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🤦 |
| CSS | \1F926 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F926} |
| Python | \U0001F926 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A6 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 A6 |
| Shortcode | :facepalm: |
| Shortcode (alt) | :person_facepalming: |
How to type 🤦 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “person facepalming”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “person facepalming”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “facepalm”.
- HTML: write
🤦in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Person Facepalming keywords
- again
- bewilder
- disbelief
- exasperation
- facepalm
- no
- not
- oh
- omg
- person
- shock
- smh
Frequently asked questions
What does 🤦 mean?
Person Facepalming slaps a hand to their face. It shows disbelief, frustration or embarrassment at something foolish — your own mistake or someone else's.
What is the 🤦 emoji called?
Its official Unicode name is Person Facepalming, but people also call it the facepalm emoji.
How do I copy and paste the Person Facepalming emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🤦 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🤦 Person Facepalming added to Unicode?
Person Facepalming was released as part of Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Does 🤦 come in different skin tones?
Yes. Person Facepalming supports five skin-tone modifiers based on the Fitzpatrick scale: 🤦🏻 🤦🏼 🤦🏽 🤦🏾 🤦🏿. Pick one from the list above to copy it.
Related Gestures emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.