Person facepalming
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- Shortcode
:facepalm:- Shortcode
:person_facepalming:- Unicode
U+1F926- HTML
🤦- CSS
\1F926- JavaScript
"\u{1F926}"- URL
%F0%9F%A4%A6
What ๐คฆ means
A person with a hand over the face. ๐คฆ shows disbelief, frustration or embarrassment.
It reacts to a dumb mistake, your own or someone else's, and to secondhand embarrassment. A typical line: "I forgot my keys again ๐คฆ." It is light enough for work chat when a bug turns out to be a typo.
Facts
Person facepalming ๐คฆ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :facepalm: or :person_facepalming:. People also look for it with words like โagainโ, โbewilderโ, โdisbeliefโ, or โexasperationโ.
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 3.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2019
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.