🤦🏻♂️Meaning and Description
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 gender-neutral "🤦" and the "🤦♀" emoji for females, this emoji also comes with a range of skin tone options.
At its most literal, the "🤦♂" emoji represents a man 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
🤦🏻♂️ (man facepalming: light skin tone) = 🤦🏻 (person facepalming: light skin tone) + ♂️ (male sign)
🤦🏻♂️ (man facepalming: light skin tone) = 🤦♂️ (man facepalming) + 🏻 (light skin tone)
🤦🏻♂️ (emoji style) = 🤦🏻♂ (no style) + emoji style
The meaning of emoji symbol 🤦🏻♂️ is man facepalming: light skin tone, it is related to disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, light skin tone, man, man facepalming, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "🙋 Gesture".
🤦🏻♂️ is a zero-width joiner sequence, which is formed by combining 1 ZWJ zero width joiner and 2 individual Emoji. These individual Emojis are: 🤦🏻 (person facepalming: light skin tone), ♂️ (male sign). The new Emoji formed is displayed as a single Emoji: 🤦🏻♂️ on some platforms with good compatibility, but it may also be displayed as multiple Emojis put together: 🤦🏻♂️ on some platforms with poor compatibility.
🤦🏻♂️Examples and Usage
🤦🏻♂️Images from Various Manufacturers
🤦🏻♂️Basic Information
Emoji: | 🤦🏻♂️ |
Shortname: | man facepalming: light skin tone |
Codepoint: | U+1F926 1F3FB 200D 2642 FE0F Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+129318 ALT+127995 ALT+8205 ALT+9794 ALT+65039 |
Unicode Version: | None |
Emoji Version: | 4.0 (2016-11-22) |
Categories: | 👌 People & Body |
Sub Categories: | 🙋 Gesture |
Keywords: | disbelief | exasperation | facepalm | light skin tone | man | man facepalming |
Proposal: | L2/15‑054 |
👨💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)
🤦🏻♂️Trend Chart
🤦🏻♂️Popularity rating over time
🤦🏻♂️See also
🤦🏻♂️Extended Content
🤦🏻♂️More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
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Arabic | 🤦🏻♂️ رجل يشعر بإحباط: بشرة بلون فاتح |
Bulgarian | 🤦🏻♂️ мъж с ръка върху лицето: светла кожа |
Chinese, Simplified | 🤦🏻♂️ 男人捂脸:浅肤色 |
Chinese, Traditional | 🤦🏻♂️ 男人捂臉:淺膚色 |
Croatian | 🤦🏻♂️ muškarac lupa dlanom o čelo: svijetla boja kože |
Czech | 🤦🏻♂️ muž chytající se za hlavu: světlý odstín pleti |
Danish | 🤦🏻♂️ mand slår sig for panden: lys teint |
Dutch | 🤦🏻♂️ man die het gezicht met de hand bedekt: lichte huidskleur |
Filipino | 🤦🏻♂️ lalaking naka-facepalm: light na kulay ng balat |
Finnish | 🤦🏻♂️ kasvonsa kädellä peittävä mies: vaalea iho |