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man facepalming

A man with his hand covering his face, used to express exasperation, disbelief, or frustration at a foolish situation or obvious mistake

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Code points
U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
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Meaning

A man with his hand covering his face, used to express exasperation, disbelief, or frustration at a foolish situation or obvious mistake. It commonly conveys a sense of "I can't believe this" or "not again," often in response to someone's error or an awkward moment. The gesture can be playful or genuinely annoyed, depending on context. It is sometimes used self-deprecatingly after one's own blunder. Because tone varies, it can read as light teasing or as dismissive, so intent may be unclear in text.

Man facepalming — Approved as part of Emoji 4.0 in 2016.

againbewilderdisbeliefexasperationfacepalmman

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Emoji names around the world

English: man facepalmingالعربية رجل يشعر بإحباطespañol hombre con la mano en la frenteportuguês homem decepcionadoहिन्दी माथे पर हाथ रखा हुआ पुरुषIndonesia pria tepuk jidat

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Quick facts

Code points
U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Unicode name
man facepalming
Category
People & BodyPeople gesturing
Unicode
9.0 · 2016Emoji 4.0
Keywords
againbewilderdisbeliefexasperationfacepalmmannonotohomgshocksmhemojimeaning

Developer

ZWJ sequenceemoji presentation requested via VS16 (U+FE0F)
Unicode data
Code pointsU+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Unicode nameman facepalming
UTF-8F0 9F A4 A6 E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F
Shortcodes
Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):man_facepalming:
HTML & CSS
HTML (hex)🤦‍♂️
HTML (decimal)🤦‍♂️
CSS\1F926 \200D \2642 \FE0F
Languages
JavaScript\u{1F926}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}
Python\U0001F926\u200D\u2642\uFE0F
Perl\x{1F926}\x{200D}\x{2642}\x{FE0F}
PHP / Ruby\u{1F926}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}
Encodings
Punycodexn--1ug66vku9rd58h
URL escape code%F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

Frequently asked

What does 🤦‍♂️ man facepalming mean?

A man with his hand covering his face, used to express exasperation, disbelief, or frustration at a foolish situation or obvious mistake. It commonly conveys a sense of "I can't believe this" or "not again," often in response to someone's error or an awkward moment. The gesture can be playful or genuinely annoyed, depending on context. It is sometimes used self-deprecatingly after one's own blunder. Because tone varies, it can read as light teasing or as dismissive, so intent may be unclear in text.

What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for 🤦‍♂️ man facepalming?

U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F (Unicode 9.0, 2016) · :man_facepalming:

Which emojis are related to 🤦‍♂️ man facepalming?

🙍 person frowning, 🙍🏻 person frowning: light skin tone, 🙍🏼 person frowning: medium-light skin tone, 🙍🏽 person frowning: medium skin tone, 🙍🏾 person frowning: medium-dark skin tone, 🙍🏿 person frowning: dark skin tone, 🙍‍♂️ man frowning, 🙍🏻‍♂️ man frowning: light skin tone

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