🤦‍♂️

Man Facepalming Emoji 🤦‍♂️

What 🤦‍♂️ means

Side-parted, short hair frames a man pressing his left palm to his face, covering most of the mid-face, shown from the shoulders up.

The 🤦‍♂️ Man Facepalming emoji suggests an instant reaction to something terribly embarrassing so much that you honestly wish you could smoke out into invisibility. It signifies disappointment, regret, and a response to something visually scarring.

How and when to use it

You can use 🤦‍♂️ while telling someone about an embarrassing story (unless you actually liked it).
Use 🤦‍♂️ as a reaction to cringy and unsee-worthy posts either on your social media feed or on your DMs.
If you've been or used to be incredibly forgetful that it resulted in some catastrophic consequences, you can use 🤦‍♂️ while telling someone about it.
🤦‍♂️ can also be used to show disappointment, especially when your buddies did not stick to your plan and went ahead with theirs and messed it up for all of you.
Use 🤦‍♂️ in any light-hearted context of showing embarrassment, like your friend's new (and ugly) shoes.
If someone sent you something annoying and absolutely distasteful, you can use 🤦‍♂️ as a response to it.

Other Names

🤦‍♂️ Embarrassment
🤦‍♂️ Disappointment
🤦‍♂️ Regret
🤦‍♂️ Guilt
🤦‍♂️ Ashamed
🤦‍♂️ Cringed Out
🤦‍♂️ Grossed Out
🤦‍♂️ Unsee-Worthy
🤦‍♂️ Forgetful
🤦‍♂️ "Oh Crap"
🤦‍♂️ Frustration
🤦‍♂️ SMH (Shaking My Head)
🤦‍♂️ Man Facepalm
🤦‍♂️ Face Palm
🤦‍♂️ Why You No Understand

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-facepalming: Slack:man_facepalming: Discord
Keywords: again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, man, no, not, oh, omg, shock, smh
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.