Man facepalming

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Shortcode
:man_facepalming:
Unicode
U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
HTML
🤦‍♂️
CSS
\1F926\200D\2642\FE0F
JavaScript
"\u{1F926}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}"
URL
%F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

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What ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ means

A man covering his face with his hand. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ shows disbelief or exasperation.

Men send it after their own blunders, like replying to the wrong chat, or to react to something foolish a friend did. It is a common, low-key response to obvious mistakes and bad puns.

Facts

Man facepalming ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐Ÿคฆ person facepalming and โ™‚๏ธ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :man_facepalming:. People also look for it with words like โ€œagainโ€, โ€œbewilderโ€, โ€œdisbeliefโ€, or โ€œexasperationโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿคฆ+โ™‚๏ธ=๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
  2. 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. man facepalming, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. man facepalming, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. man facepalming, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 4.0