🤦 Person Facepalming
A hand shown pressing against the head of a person, commonly written as facepalm. Used to display frustration or embarrassment at the ineptitude of a person or situation.
May be used in a similar context to the acronym SMH (shaking my head), or in relation to the Picard Facepalm meme.
Person Facepalming was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 under the name “Face Palm” and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Also Known As
- 🤦 Facepalm
- 🤦 Hitting Head
- 🤦 Picard
- 🤦 SMH
Unicode Name
🤦 Face Palm
Modifiers
The Face Palm emoji supports skin tone modifiers. A yellow (or other non-human) skin tone should be shown by default, unless an emoji modifier is applied.
- 🤦🏻 Person Facepalming: Light Skin Tone
- 🤦🏼 Person Facepalming: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- 🤦🏽 Person Facepalming: Medium Skin Tone
- 🤦🏾 Person Facepalming: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- 🤦🏿 Person Facepalming: Dark Skin Tone
Platforms without support for emoji modifiers display a missing symbol character (box with a cross, alien, or question mark in it) next to any modified emoji.