Man facepalming emoji 🤦♂️
Emoji 4.0 (2016) · U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤦♂️ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Man facepalming 🤦♂️ is tagged with these keywords: again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, man, no, not, oh, omg.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing again or bewilder in the emoji search brings up 🤦♂️.
Man facepalming 🤦♂️ is one of 30 emoji in the people gesturing subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🤦♀️ 🤷 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️.
🤦♂️ comes in 5 skin tones, from 🤦🏻♂️ to 🤦🏿♂️, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🤦♂️ show on my friend's phone?
🤦♂️ arrived with Emoji 4.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
What 🤦♂️ is made of
Technically 🤦♂️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🤦 person facepalming + ♂️ male sign. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🤦♂️
Any emoji picker finds 🤦♂️ when you search for man facepalming.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type man facepalming.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type man facepalming in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type man facepalming.
Codes for developers
Man facepalming 🤦♂️ is written with 4 code points: U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. In UTF-8 it takes 13 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤦‍♂️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤦‍♂️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F926 \200D \2642 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F926}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 A6 E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤦♂️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | man facepalming |
| Português | homem decepcionado |
| Español | hombre con la mano en la frente |
| Italiano | uomo esasperato |
| Français | homme avec la paume sur le visage |
| Deutsch | sich an den Kopf fassender Mann |
| Türkçe | eliyle yüzünü kapatan erkek |
| Bahasa Indonesia | pria tepuk jidat |
| Polski | mężczyzna trzymający się za czoło |
| Русский | мужчина потерял дар речи |
| 日本語 | ひたいに手をあてる男 |
| 한국어 | 골치 아파하는 남자 |
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the man facepalming emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤦♂️ "man facepalming" and links it with again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people gesturing subgroup of people & body.
When was the man facepalming emoji added?
In Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤦♂️?
Yes. 🤦♂️ has these skin tones: 🤦🏻♂️ 🤦🏼♂️ 🤦🏽♂️ 🤦🏾♂️ 🤦🏿♂️. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.