Where it comes from
The hand is ლ, a letter of the Georgian alphabet, placed over one side of the face. ‸ (a caret) is the squished nose and mouth, and － is a shut, pained eye.
When to use it
Use it after your own silly mistake or someone's obvious blunder. Aimed at a coworker it can feel condescending, so keep it for friends.
Examples
- I sent the message to the wrong group (－‸ლ)
- He locked his keys in the car again (－‸ლ)
Variants to copy
What it is made of
Every character in the face with its Unicode code point — handy if one shows up as a box on a friend's phone.
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U+0028left parenthesis－
U+FF0Dfullwidth hyphen-minus‸
U+2038caretლ
U+10DAgeorgian letter las)
U+0029right parenthesis