People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🤦♀️Woman Facepalming Emoji
Basically, it means “I can’t believe this” or “That’s so dumb.” People use it to express frustration or disbelief in a text.
The 🤦♀️ emoji shows a woman with her hand dramatically covering her face, like she's doing a facepalm.
- Unicode
- U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
facepalming: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤦♀️ Woman Facepalming emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
People also look for it as facepalm emoji.
02 — Platforms
Woman Facepalming emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the woman facepalming as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman 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
Woman Facepalming emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :woman-facepalming:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F926.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🤦♀️ Woman Facepalming emoji
No picker to hand? The woman facepalming can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Woman Facepalming emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman facepalming as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman Facepalming emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman 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
Universally understood as exasperation or disbelief — the meme predates and outlives any regional variation.
Reads the same everywhere as “I can’t believe this” or secondhand embarrassment.
Mild enough to use in semi-formal settings to react to a mistake.
Before you send it: One of the safest reaction emoji out there — use it freely for frustration, cringe or disbelief.
10 — Apps
What 🤦♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
🤦♀️ vs 🧏♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Facepalming
Code: U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-facepalming:
Basically, it means “I can’t believe this” or “That’s so dumb.”
Unicode name: Deaf Woman
Code: U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2019
Shortcode: :deaf_woman:
Generally, it just means “Deaf woman.”
13 — History
Where the 🤦♀️ Woman 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 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Woman Facepalming was approved as U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ