A facepalm emoticon is a face with a hand over one eye, such as (－‸ლ). The emoji is Person facepalming, U+1F926. Both are here to copy, with keyboard-only forms, a drawing, near misses and combos.
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How to make a facepalm emoticon
Start with a face in parentheses, shut one eye with a dash, and put a hand where the other eye was. In (－‸ლ) the hand is ლ, a letter of the Georgian alphabet, so the face needs a font for that script. On a plain keyboard a slash is the arm: (/_-).
What a facepalm says
A facepalm is the gesture of putting a hand across the face. It shows frustration, disappointment, embarrassment or disbelief. The emoji came with Unicode 9.0 in 2016, under the name Face palm.
CLDR, the word list behind emoji keyboards, files the facepalm under smh, omg, disbelief and exasperation.
The see-no-evil monkey covers both eyes and shares smh and omg with the facepalm, but it is its own emoji.
Questions and answers
What is the emoticon for facepalm?
In text it is a face with a hand over one eye, such as (－‸ლ): parentheses for the head, a dash for a shut eye and ლ for the hand. As an emoji it is 🤦, Person facepalming.
How do you make a facepalm emoticon on a keyboard?
Type an opening parenthesis, a slash, an underscore, a hyphen and a closing parenthesis: (/_-). The slash is the arm across the face. The word alone works too, between two asterisks: *facepalm*.
What is a facepalm emoticon used for?
For the moment someone, often yourself, gets something plainly wrong. The gesture shows frustration, disappointment or embarrassment, and the emoji is filed under the words omg and disbelief.
Can I copy and paste the face palm emoji?
Yes. Tap 🤦, Person facepalming, and it is copied in the skin tone that is picked. Man facepalming and Woman facepalming have tiles of their own, both joined sequences from Emoji 4.0.
All 37 facepalms
The facepalm emoji 3
🤦♂️Man facepalmingU+1F926 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. Person facepalming with the male sign added. Emoji 4.0.
🤦Person facepalmingU+1F926. Unicode names the character Face palm. CLDR files it under facepalm, smh, omg, disbelief and exasperation. Emoji 3.0.
🤦♀️Woman facepalmingU+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. Person facepalming with the female sign added. Emoji 4.0.
Facepalm in text 9
(>‸ლ)The same hand, with the open eye screwed shut
(¬‸ლ)A facepalm with a sideways look
(ლ‸ლ)Both hands, one over each eye
(╥‸ლ)A facepalm with a tear running
(－‸ლ)A shut eye, a small mouth and a hand over the other eye
(－‸ლ)...A facepalm, then nothing left to say
(－‸ლ)💧A facepalm with a drop of sweat
ლ(－‸－ლ)Both hands up, about to land
(－‸ლ) smhWith the letters smh, shaking my head
Keyboard only 5
(-_\)Keyboard only: the other arm
(/.-)Keyboard only: one arm, a dot for the mouth
(/_-)Keyboard only: a slash for the arm across one eye
(/_\)Keyboard only: both arms up, the whole face hidden
*facepalm*The word alone, between two asterisks
Show all 37 facepalms (20 more)
Near misses 7
😑Expressionless faceU+1F611. No hand at all: it shares the CLDR words oh, omg and not. Emoji 1.0.
🤭Face with hand over mouthU+1F92D. Not a facepalm: a hand over a smile. CLDR files it under oops and whoops, and it shares the word shock. Emoji 5.0.
🫢Face with open eyes and hand over mouthU+1FAE2. Not a facepalm: the hand is over the mouth. It shares the CLDR words disbelief, omg and shock. Emoji 14.0.
🫣Face with peeking eyeU+1FAE3. Not a facepalm: a hand over the face with one eye looking through. CLDR files it under hide and peek. Emoji 14.0.
🤨Face with raised eyebrowU+1F928. No hand: it shares the CLDR word disbelief. Emoji 5.0.
🙈See-no-evil monkeyU+1F648. Not a facepalm: a monkey with both hands over its eyes. It shares the CLDR words smh, omg and no with the facepalm. Emoji 0.6.
😒Unamused faceU+1F612. No hand, the same mood: it shares the CLDR word smh. Emoji 0.6.
A drawn facepalm 1
Hand over the faceFive fingers and a palm across the eyes, 14 columns wide.
Facepalm combos 12
🤦🙈Cannot lookA facepalm, then a monkey that will not look either.
🤦🤦Double facepalmTwo facepalms. For when one is not enough.
🤦😮💨Facepalm and sighPerson facepalming, then face exhaling.
🤦🙄Facepalm, eyes rolledPerson facepalming, then face with rolling eyes.
🤦😂Facepalm, then laughPerson facepalming, then face with tears of joy.
🔑🤦Forgot my keysKey, then the facepalm.
📚🤦Forgot the homeworkBooks, then the facepalm.
⏰🤦Late againAlarm clock, then the facepalm.
📅🤦Monday againCalendar, then the facepalm.
🔁🤦Not againRepeat button, then the facepalm. CLDR files the facepalm under again.
💡🤦So that was the answerLight bulb, then the facepalm: the answer was obvious.
⌨️🤦TypoKeyboard, then the facepalm.
How this list was compiled: Names, code points, sequences, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from Unicode's emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); item names are the CLDR short names with a capital. Search words are the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt) and the names of plain characters from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The near misses are faces that cover part of the face with a hand, or that share one of the facepalm's CLDR search words (smh, omg, disbelief, shock); one more emoji shares the word smh and is left out. What the gesture means, the word alone as a way of writing it, and the year the emoji joined Unicode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facepalm (CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words); the Unicode version of U+1F926 is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). The text faces, the keyboard-only forms, the drawing and the combo names are this site's own work; the first text face is a common form that other pages of this site list too. All sources read on 2 October 2026. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are this site's own; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in this site's own words and credited in source)