U+1F926 "🤦" Face Palm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤦
U+1F926 "🤦" Face Palm is a pictographic symbol officially known as "Face Palm" and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2015 as part of Emoji 3.0. It depicts a human figure with one hand covering their face in a gesture commonly used to express frustration, embarrassment, disbelief, or exasperation at a foolish action or statement. The character belongs to the "People & Body" category and is typically rendered in a gender-neutral form, though it can also be modified using Zero Width Joiner sequences to represent male or female versions. It is widely used in digital communication to convey a nonverbal reaction of disappointment or secondhand embarrassment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F926 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Face Palm |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🤦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🤦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F926 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd26 |