🤦Meaning and Description
Step into the expressive world of the "Person Facepalming" emoji (🤦), affectionately known as the "SMH" emoji. This emoji features the image of a human face, commonly depicted as a gender-neutral figure with short hair. The face is shown with a hand placed on the forehead, covering the eyes, and extending down to the nose. The hand is represented by an open palm and four fingers, with the thumb resting on the forehead. The eyes of the emoji are usually closed or slightly squinted, indicating a sense of disappointment or annoyance.
The act of slapping one's forehead or covering one's face with a hand is widely recognized across cultures as a sign of frustration, disbelief, or mild embarrassment. Along with the "🤦♀" for female and the "🤦♂" emoji for men, this emoji also comes with a range of skin tone options.
At its most literal, the "🤦" emoji represents a person facepalming, it is also frequently used to signify that someone's made a cringe-worthy mistake or said something incredibly silly.
In everyday conversation and on social media, the facepalm emoji can join forces with other emojis to convey even more nuanced emotions. Combine it with the rolling eyes emoji 🙄 to express extra annoyance or pair it with the laughing emoji 😂 for a humorous take on a facepalm moment. Whether it's a simple 🤦 or a complex 🤦♀️😂, this emoji is all about expressing that "I can't believe this" feeling!
The act of slapping one's forehead or covering one's face with a hand is widely recognized across cultures as a sign of frustration, disbelief, or mild embarrassment. Along with the "🤦♀" for female and the "🤦♂" emoji for men, this emoji also comes with a range of skin tone options.
At its most literal, the "🤦" emoji represents a person facepalming, it is also frequently used to signify that someone's made a cringe-worthy mistake or said something incredibly silly.
In everyday conversation and on social media, the facepalm emoji can join forces with other emojis to convey even more nuanced emotions. Combine it with the rolling eyes emoji 🙄 to express extra annoyance or pair it with the laughing emoji 😂 for a humorous take on a facepalm moment. Whether it's a simple 🤦 or a complex 🤦♀️😂, this emoji is all about expressing that "I can't believe this" feeling!
💡Extended reading and popular science
The meaning of emoji symbol 🤦 is person facepalming, it is related to disbelief, exasperation, face, palm, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "🙋 Gesture".
🤦 is an Emoji modifier base, it can be used as a single Emoji, and can also be combined with the skin tone Emoji modifier to form a new Emoji. There are 5 types of Emoji modifiers, namely: 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿. 🤦 is combined with these skin tone Emoji modifiers to form new Emoji modifier sequences. The following are examples of the combination:
🤦Examples and Usage
🔸 Oh, we have to work overtime on weekends again 🤦.
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🤦Basic Information
Emoji: | 🤦 |
Shortname: | person facepalming |
Apple Name: | person facepalming |
Known as: | SMH | Facepalm | Hitting Head | Picard |
Codepoint: | U+1F926 Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+129318 |
Unicode Version: | 9.0 (2016-06-03) |
Emoji Version: | 3.0 (2016-06-03) |
Categories: | 👌 People & Body |
Sub Categories: | 🙋 Gesture |
Keywords: | disbelief | exasperation | face | palm | person facepalming |
Proposal: | L2/15‑054 |
👨💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)
🤦Trend Chart
🤦Popularity rating over time
Date Range: 2019-04-07 - 2024-04-07
Update Time: 2024-04-13 18:12:26 UTC 🤦and in the last five years, the popularity of this emoji has undergone several large changes.In 2020 and 2022, the trend of its popularity converge.
Update Time: 2024-04-13 18:12:26 UTC 🤦and in the last five years, the popularity of this emoji has undergone several large changes.In 2020 and 2022, the trend of its popularity converge.
🤦See also
🤦Relative Topic
🤦Extended Content
🤦More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
---|---|
Arabic | 🤦 شخص محبط |
Bulgarian | 🤦 ръка върху лице |
Chinese, Simplified | 🤦 捂脸 |
Chinese, Traditional | 🤦 哦不 |
Croatian | 🤦 lupanje dlanom o čelo |
Czech | 🤦 osoba chytající se za hlavu |
Danish | 🤦 slå sig for panden |
Dutch | 🤦 persoon die het gezicht met de hand bedekt |
Filipino | 🤦 naka-facepalm |
Finnish | 🤦 peittää kasvot kädellä |
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