Person Facepalming: Medium-dark Skin Tone

🤦🏾 is the medium-dark skin tone version of 🤦 Person Facepalming. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. 🤦 is a facepalm. It means exasperation at something foolish, including your own mistake.

See the default 🤦 Person Facepalming emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.

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

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

CLDR short name: person facepalming: medium-dark skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F926 U+1F3FE
Hex: 1F926 1F3FE
Emoji version: 3.0
Unicode version: 9.0
First released: 2016
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: person-gesture
Skin tone: medium-dark
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

again · bewilder · disbelief · exasperation · facepalm · medium-dark skin tone · no · not · oh · omg · person · shock · smh

How it looks

Person Facepalming: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent 3D — Fluent 3D

Person Facepalming: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Person Facepalming: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

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Questions people ask

What does the 🤦🏾 person facepalming: medium-dark skin tone emoji mean?: 🤦🏾 is the medium-dark skin tone version of 🤦 Person Facepalming. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. 🤦 is a facepalm. It means exasperation at something foolish, including your own mistake.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🤦🏾?: U+1F926 U+1F3FE.
When was the 🤦🏾 person facepalming: medium-dark skin tone 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.