man facepalming: medium-light skin tone

🤦🏼‍♂️

man facepalming: medium-light skin tone

Expresses disbelief, embarrassment, or frustration when something ridiculous happens. A classic male facepalm moment for “why did this have to happen?”

Unicode
U+1F926 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Variant status
Fully-qualified
Emoji version
E4.0

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ZWJ Composition

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🤦🏼
U+1F926U+1F3FC
ZWJ
U+2642