Meaning
Exasperation at something foolish, your own mistake included.
Its official Unicode name is person facepalming, filed under gestures in the people & body group. Keyboards find it when you search for “again”, “bewilder”, “disbelief”, “exasperation”, “facepalm”, “no”. It supports five skin-tone variants.
Mix 🤦 with another emoji
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person facepalming + smiling face with hearts- +
person facepalming + nerd face - +
person facepalming + zipper-mouth face - +
person facepalming + grinning face
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