Person Facepalming
🤦 is a facepalm. It means exasperation at something foolish, including your own mistake.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- FACE PALM
- CLDR short name
- person facepalming
- Codepoint
- U+1F926
- Hex
- 1F926
- Emoji version
- 3.0
- Unicode version
- 9.0
- First released
- 2016
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person-gesture
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:facepalm:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRagain · bewilder · disbelief · exasperation · facepalm · no · not · oh · omg · person · shock · smh
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How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🤦 person facepalming emoji mean?
- 🤦 is a facepalm. It means exasperation at something foolish, including your own mistake.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🤦?
- U+1F926, named FACE PALM in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the 🤦 person facepalming emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 3.0, published in 2016, alongside Unicode 9.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🤦 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “person facepalming”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🤦 from this page with one click.
- Does 🤦 come in different skin tones?
- Yes. There are 5 skin-tone versions: 🤦🏻 🤦🏼 🤦🏽 🤦🏾 🤦🏿. They all mean the same thing; long-press 🤦 on a phone keyboard to pick one.
- What is the shortcode for 🤦?
- On GitHub, type :facepalm: and it turns into 🤦 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.