The woman facepalming emoji is the internet’s universal sign for “I cannot with this today.” It’s the digital forehead slap you send when someone confidently posts the wrong link, explains your own joke back to you, or forgets the attachment—for the third time. It delivers peak smh, I can’t even, and big cringe energy in one compact reaction. Perfect for group chats, deadline disasters, and every “who approved this” moment.
On Apple/iOS, she’s shown from the shoulders up in a three-quarter angle, one hand planted across her forehead, eyes squeezed shut like “give me strength.” The styling features the familiar purple top, smooth gradients, and the default yellow skin tone, with selectable skin tones and hair colors; the default hair often reads as blonde. The pose is clean and centered, palm covering the brow rather than the nose, so the exasperation reads instantly even at tiny sizes. It’s a crisp, modern riff on the classic visual gag.
Culturally, it nods to the legendary facepalm meme lineage (hello, Captain Picard), and pairs well with captions like “sure, Jan,” “yikes,” or “girl, please.” People also use it playfully or flirtatiously—think “you’re trouble, aren’t you?” plus a facepalm for faux-exasperated charm. On TikTok and Twitter/X, it shows up under fail compilations, chaotic pet stories, and Monday-thread disasters, often as a “send help” button. Real-life translation: you started talking on Zoom while still on mute, auto-correct betrayed you, and your brain just tapped out—cue the palm.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1049 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤦♀️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 4 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤦♀️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤦 ‍ ♀ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤦 ‍ ♀ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f926, 200d, 2640, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F926, U+200D, U+2640, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129318, 8205, 9792, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xA6, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x80, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 A6, E2 80 8D, E2 99 80, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 246, 342 200 215, 342 231 200, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD26, 0x200D, 0x2640, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd26, 200d, 2640, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56614, 8205, 9792, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F926 0x0000200D 0x00002640 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F926, 200D, 2640, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129318, 8205, 9792, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F926\u200D\u2640\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\xa6\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x80\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD26\u200D\u2640\uFE0F" |
