People & Body · Emoji 3.0
🤦Person Facepalming Emoji
It’s mostly used to show you’re completely exasperated or embarrassed by something someone said or did. Think of it as a digital hand gesture of disbelief.
The 🤦 emoji, also known as "Person Facepalming," shows a person dramatically slapping their face with their hand.
- Unicode
- U+1F926
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :face_
palm: - Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #18 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤦 Person Facepalming emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
02 — Platforms
Person Facepalming emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F926. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Facepalming emoji skin tones
🤦 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Person Facepalming emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :face_palm:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person facepalming, code point U+1F926.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🤦 Person Facepalming emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Person Facepalming emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person facepalming as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Person Facepalming emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person facepalming for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🤦 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🤦 means in other countries
The plain figure carries the same universal “I can’t believe this” meaning as the gendered versions.
Standard reaction to a blunder, a cringe moment, or plain bad news.
Reads as mild, acceptable frustration without coming across as harsh or offensive.
Before you send it: Safe across contexts — a reliable way to react to a mistake without saying a word.
10 — Apps
What 🤦 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the person facepalming lands changes how it is taken.
12 — Difference
🤦 vs 🙋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Facepalming
Code: U+1F926 · added 2016
Shortcode: :face_palm:
It’s mostly used to show you’re completely exasperated or embarrassed by something someone said or did.
Unicode name: Person Raising Hand
Code: U+1F64B · added 2010
Shortcode: :raising_hand:
Generally, 🙋 means “I volunteer,” “I want to answer,” or “pick me.”
13 — History
Where the 🤦 Person Facepalming emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F926 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Person Facepalming was approved as U+1F926 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🤦 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ