Woman facepalming emoji 🤦♀️
Emoji 4.0 (2016) · U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤦♀️ means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🤦♀️ are again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, no, not, oh, omg, shock. They show what people use it for.
Search for again or bewilder on your emoji keyboard and 🤦♀️ is among the results.
You will find 🤦♀️ among the people gesturing (30 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🤷 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️ 🙍.
Besides the default yellow, 🤦♀️ has 5 skin tones, from 🤦🏻♀️ light to 🤦🏿♀️ dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🤦♀️ show on my friend's phone?
🤦♀️ has been around since Emoji 4.0 (2016), so it is safe to send to anyone.
What 🤦♀️ is made of
Technically 🤦♀️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🤦 person facepalming + ♀️ female sign. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🤦♀️
Search for woman facepalming in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🤦♀️.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type woman facepalming.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type woman facepalming in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type woman facepalming.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🤦♀️ is 4 code points (U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F), 13 bytes in UTF-8 and 5 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤦‍♀️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤦‍♀️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F926 \200D \2640 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F926}\u200D\u2640\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 A6 E2 80 8D E2 99 80 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 | woman facepalming |
| Português | mulher decepcionada |
| Español | mujer con la mano en la frente |
| Italiano | donna esasperata |
| Français | femme avec la paume sur le visage |
| Deutsch | sich an den Kopf fassende Frau |
| Türkçe | eliyle yüzünü kapatan kadın |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wanita tepuk jidat |
| Polski | kobieta trzymająca się za czoło |
| Русский | женщина потеряла дар речи |
| 日本語 | ひたいに手をあてる女 |
| 한국어 | 골치 아파하는 여자 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the woman facepalming emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤦♀️ "woman 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 woman 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.