🤦 meaning at a glance
- Plain meaning: Frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, or disappointment at an obvious mistake.
- Usual tone: Exasperated · Embarrassed
- Use with care: Pointing it at another person can feel insulting.
- Technical type: Single-Code-Point Emoji from Emoji 3.0
What does 🤦 mean in messages?
Frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, or disappointment at an obvious mistake.
Use 🤦 for people, gestures, roles, identity, or physical actions. Unicode calls it “person facepalming.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.
For a wider view, browse people & body emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the family and gender emoji guide.
Example messages with 🤦
Unicode construction and code points
This copyable emoji is a single-code-point emoji. It uses 1 core Unicode code point: U+1F926 face palm.
U+1F926face palmVersion and platform support
The person facepalming emoji was introduced in Emoji 3.0 and is classified in the person gesture subgroup. This emoji has broad support on modern platforms, but its artwork can still differ substantially between vendors.
Names, keywords, and classification
The standardized name is “person facepalming.” Search terms indexed for this entry include facepalming, person. It belongs to People & Body and the person gesture subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.
Accessibility and clear wording
For alt text, start with “person facepalming.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.
Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.