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🤦🏻 facepalm emoji
The facepalm emoji 🤦🏻 depicts a person covering their face, commonly representing disbelief, bewilderment, or exasperation. It is used in conversations about mistakes, surprising moments, or reactions such as "oh no" and "smh."
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- Category
- People & Body
- Unicode version
- 9.0
- Release year
- 2016
- Unicode sequence
- U+1F926 U+1F3FB
- Emoji version
- 3.0
What does 🤦🏻 mean?
A person depicted with their hand covering their face, typically with the fingers extending over the forehead and the thumb resting on the chin. This gesture visually represents disbelief, frustration, or embarrassment. Officially designated by Unicode as 'FACE PALM' to symbolize a reaction to a situation that is either surprising, disappointing, or awkward.
Common uses
- Expressing disbelief or frustration: 'I can't believe I forgot my keys again 🤦'
- Indicating embarrassment: 'I accidentally sent that message to the wrong person 🤦'
- Commenting on an awkward situation: 'When you realize you've been talking to yourself in the mirror 🤦'
In a message
The technical support call lasted for two hours before they realized it was a simple user error 🤦
I can't believe I left the stove on all day. Good thing nothing happened 🤦
When you realize you've been singing the wrong lyrics all along 🤦
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What does 🤦🏻 mean?
A person depicted with their hand covering their face, typically with the fingers extending over the forehead and the thumb resting on the chin. This gesture visually represents disbelief, frustration, or embarrassment. Officially designated by Unicode as 'FACE PALM' to symbolize a reaction to a situation that is either surprising, disappointing, or awkward.
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