| Emoji | 🤦 |
| Name | person facepalming |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F926 |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subcategory | Person Gesture |
| Emoji Version | 3 |
| Tags | again, bewilder, disbelief, exasperation, facepalm, no, not, oh, omg, person, shock, smh |
| Decimal Value | 129318 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F926 |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 🤦 / 🤦 |
The person facepalming emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.
Category context: The People & Body category is Unicode's largest emoji group, covering body parts, hand gestures, family compositions, professions, and activities — many of which support optional skin-tone modifiers to represent human diversity.
Cataloged under Person Gesture within the People & Body category, person facepalming is the 1524th of 2418 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 3 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F926.
💡 Good to know: Many People & Body emoji support skin-tone modifiers (added in Unicode 8.0, 2015) — if this specific emoji has tone variants, they'll be shown as related emoji below.
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The person facepalming emoji is Unicode U+1F926.
The person facepalming emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.