Person Facepalming
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.
Person Facepalming was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 under the name "Face Palm" and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
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