🤦

Person Facepalming Emoji 🤦

What 🤦 means

A gender-neutral description of a person with short, side-parted, covering most of the face with the left palm. This emoji aligns very closely with the emotion evoked by the social media abbreviation, SMH (Shaking My Head).

The 🤦 Person Facepalming emoji refers to feelings of unease, disappointment, instant regret, and embarrassment in a broader sense. It can also signify low-key guilt. This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

🤦 comes handy especially when you don't want to be disclosing your identity on social media. You can use this emoji as a reaction to posts that are embarrassing and cringe AF.
You can also use 🤦 when your buddy tells you something extremely stupid and careless he/she did.
If you're the one telling someone about something silly and disappointing that you did, or unexpectedly (or not) happened in your life, you can use 🤦 in such contexts.
🤦 can also be used in ironic contexts, like you watching or reading something entirely different from what you knew about someone or something.
If someone dearly close to you set out to embarrass you again, then you can use 🤦 while telling someone about it.

Other Names

🤦 Embarrassed
🤦 Disappointed
🤦 Regret
🤦 Guilt
🤦 Shame
🤦 Disgrace
🤦 Awful
🤦 Terrible
🤦 Cringy
🤦 Gross
🤦 Ew
🤦 SMH (Shaking My Head)
🤦 Facepalm
🤦 Hitting Head
🤦 Man Facepalm
🤦 Face Palm
🤦 Why You No Understand

At a glance

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F926
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :facepalm:
Keywords: again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, no, not, oh, omg, person, shock, smh