Person facepalming emoji 🤦
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F926
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤦 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Person facepalming 🤦 is tagged with these keywords: again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, no, not, oh, omg, person.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing again or bewilder in the emoji search brings up 🤦.
Person 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 3.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🤦
Any emoji picker finds 🤦 when you search for person facepalming.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person facepalming.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person facepalming in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person facepalming.
Codes for developers
Person facepalming 🤦 is a single code point, U+1F926. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F926 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤦 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤦 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F926"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F926} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 A6 |
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 | person facepalming |
| Português | pessoa decepcionada |
| Español | persona con la mano en la frente |
| Italiano | persona esasperata |
| Français | personne avec la paume sur le visage |
| Deutsch | sich an den Kopf fassende Person |
| Türkçe | yüzünü eliyle kapama |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang tepuk jidat |
| Polski | osoba trzymająca się za czoło |
| Русский | человек потерял дар речи |
| 日本語 | ひたいに手をあてる人 |
| 한국어 | 골치 아파하는 사람 |
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person facepalming emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤦 "person 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 person facepalming emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, 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.