🤦 Emoji Meaning
The 🤦 emoji, officially called the "Person Facepalming" emoji, depicts a person with a hand covering their face, typically signifying frustration, embarrassment, or exasperation. Here are some of its most popular meanings:
- Disbelief or disbelief at someone's stupidity: This is the most common usage. It's used to react to something silly, illogical, or obviously wrong that someone has said or done.
- Embarrassment (own or someone else's): The facepalm can be used when you're embarrassed for yourself or for someone else's awkward or cringeworthy actions.
- Exasperation or frustration: When something goes wrong, is annoyingly repetitive, or you're just feeling overwhelmed, the facepalm can express that frustration.
- Regret or self-disappointment: It can be used to express regret over a mistake you made or a missed opportunity.
- Sarcasm or irony: Sometimes the facepalm is used sarcastically to highlight the absurdity of a situation.
While the primary emotion is usually negative, the facepalm can also be used in a lighthearted or playful way, particularly between friends. The intensity of the emotion can also vary depending on the context and other emojis used alongside it. For example, adding a laughing emoji might indicate amusement at the situation rather than pure frustration.
Person Facepalming Emoji Images
Here is how Person Facepalming emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:
Person-Gesture Related Emoji
Here is a list of other emojis from the People & Body category, Person-Gesture subcategory: