A hand shown pressing against the head of a person, commonly written as facepalm. Used to display frustration or embarrassment at the ineptitude of a person or situation. May be used in a similar context to the acronym SMH (shaking my head), or in relation to the Picard Facepalm meme.

This emoji is used by both men and women to convey the same meaning as the gesture in real life and in mass culture, particularly in memes on the �� Internet. It symbolizes a mix of frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, and shame, often caused by someone else's or the user's own stupid, inconsiderate, or inappropriate actions or words.

A hand shown pressing against the head of a person, commonly written as facepalm or hand on face emoji. Used to display frustration, disappointment or embarrassment at the slowness, incompetence or inability of a person or the awkwardness of a situation.

Also called the head-slap emoji, the person facepalming, or the hand-on-face emoji, this emoticon has a lot of variations—it comes in different hair and skin colors, and it also has more masculine and feminine versions: the 🤦‍♀️ (woman facepalming) and 🤦‍♂️ (man facepalming) emojis.