Woman facepalming

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Shortcode: :woman_facepalming:
Unicode: U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
HTML: 🤦‍♀️
CSS: \1F926\200D\2640\FE0F
JavaScript: "\u{1F926}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}"
URL: %F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F

again bewilder disbelief exasperation facepalm no not oh omg shock smh woman

What 🤦‍♀️ means

A woman covering her face with her hand. 🤦‍♀️ shows exasperation, embarrassment or "I can't believe this."

Women send it when someone says something silly, when a plan goes sideways, or when they mess up themselves. It turns a frustrating moment into a shared joke instead of a complaint.

Facts

Woman facepalming 🤦‍♀️ 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 🤦 person facepalming and ♀️ female 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 :woman_facepalming:. People also look for it with words like “again”, “bewilder”, “disbelief”, or “exasperation”.

Made of

🤦+♀️=🤦‍♀️

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

2017
2020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

2016

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

people & body · Emoji 4.0