🤦 Person Facepalming Emoji

Regardless of gender, the person facepalming emoji shows a character making the motion of putting their hand on their forehead in frustration. It shows as either a man or a woman depending on the platform. Men and women both use this emoji to convey the same meaning as the gesture in casual conversation and popular culture, especially in internet memes. It represents a mixture of anger, sadness, embarrassment, and shame that is frequently brought on by the actions or words of another person or the user themselves that are stupid, careless, or inappropriate. Additionally, the text refers to someone being embarrassed and hesitant to ask a question or engage in an open discussion as they consider their next steps.

The person facepalming emoji was introduced in 2016 and released as part of the Unicode 11.0 standard. This emoji can be found under the people and body category. Because the person facepalming emoji has been around for quite some time, it should display correctly in the majority of operating systems.

Short Codes:

:person_facepalming:

Hex Code:

🤦

Decimal Code:

🤦

Punycode:

xn--fq9h

URL Escape Code:

%F0%9F%A4%A6

JavaScript & JSON:

\ud83e\udd26

CSS Code:

content: '\1F926';