Emoji 
(WOMAN FACEPALMING): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji (WOMAN FACEPALMING), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.
Information about emoji WOMAN FACEPALMING
- Unicode Name
- WOMAN FACEPALMING
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F926 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Person Gesture
- Slug
- woman-facepalming
Meaning and description of emoticon
The emoji depicts a woman covering her face with her palm in a facepalm gesture. Located in the 'People & Body' section of Unicode.
conveys a gesture, a bodily reaction, and a readable emotion in motion. works best when you need to show a gesture, pose, bodily reaction, or emotionally charged human action. In chat it reads as "the gesture matters here," "a bodily reaction is being read," or "conveying human behavior without a long description." Pairing with 
makes it read more naturally. A typical phrase: "What matters here is the gesture itself and how it shifts the meaning " — shifts the topic in a single symbol. Beneath the surface, gesture emojis often signify not a literal action but the tone, level of engagement, and the person's attitude toward the situation.
Usage Examples
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :woman-facepalming: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :woman-facepalming: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :woman-facepalming: | |
| HTML Dec | 🤦‍♀️ | |
| HTML Hex | 🤦‍♀️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F926\200D\2640\FE0F"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F926\U0000200D\U00002640\U0000FE0F | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDD26\u200D\u2640\uFE0F | |
| Perl | \x{1F926}\x{200D}\x{2640}\x{FE0F} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F926 200D 2640 FE0F} | |
| Punycode | xn--1ug26vqu9rd58h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%A4%A6%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A4 A6 E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F |
