Person shrugging: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned person raising both shoulders and palms upward, conveying a sense of uncertainty or lack of knowledge. The figure has a neutral facial expression that emphasizes the non-committal nature of the gesture.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to response when you genuinely don't know the answer to a question, feel indifferent about a situation, or want to signal that a specific outcome is out of your control. It acts as a visual shorthand for the acronym 'IDK' and is often used alongside 🤷 or 🤷‍♂️ in casual text conversations to express nonchalance.

History

The shrug gesture was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It was specifically requested to fill the gap for a non-verbal way to communicate 'I don't know' in digital messaging, reflecting the global trend of translating common physical body language into icon-based shorthand.

Details

Glyph

🤷🏿

Unicode

U+1F937 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f937_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD37;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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