Expresses disbelief, embarrassment, or frustration when something ridiculous happens. A classic male facepalm moment for “why did this have to happen?”
man facepalming: medium-light skin tone
Definitions & examples
- Groups
- Subgroups
- 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
See how 🤦🏼♂️ is built from its components, split by zero-width joiner (ZWJ).