Woman shrugging: light skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with light skin shrugging her shoulders with palms turned upward and a neutral, puzzled expression. This gesture physically demonstrates a lack of knowledge, certainty, or interest.
Usage Context
Used widely in digital communication to signal that you don't know the answer, don't care about the outcome, or are feeling dismissive of a situation. It functions as a visual shortcut for phrases like 'I have no idea' or 'beats me.' It is frequently used alongside other expressions of confusion like 🤔 or the standard 🤷.
History
The base shrug emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 following the massive popularity of the shrug emoticon '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' on early internet forums and IRC channels. This specific gendered and skin-toned variant was released shortly after to allow users to better represent their own appearance in chat.
Details
Glyph
🤷🏻♀
Unicode
U+1F937 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f937_1f3fb_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
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
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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