Man shrugging: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with medium-light skin tone raising his shoulders and hands with palms facing upward. His facial expression is neutral, clearly signaling a lack of information or interest.
Usage Context
Used to convey confusion, apathy, or the classic 'I don't know' response in digital conversations. It is the go-to reaction for when you genuinely have no answer or simply cannot be bothered to provide one. It is often used in combination with 🤷 to show a shift in tone or to emphasize a shoulder-shrugging gesture.
History
The shrug gesture was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It was created to bridge the gap between text-based shorthand like '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' and actual character support, allowing users to express ambiguity without having to type out an ASCII character sequence.
Details
Glyph
🤷🏼♂
Unicode
U+1F937 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f937_1f3fc_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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