Man shrugging: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium skin tone lifting his shoulders and palms upward in a universal gesture of uncertainty or apathy. The expression is blank, signaling a lack of knowledge or a 'whatever' attitude toward a situation.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji when you have no answer to a question, don't care about the outcome, or are feeling particularly helpless in a conversation. It frequently acts as a digital version of 'beats me' and pairs perfectly with the 🤷 or the face-palm 🤦🏽‍♂️ when expressing frustration.

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 non-verbal cues in mobile messaging, as users struggled to convey passive indifference using only text-based emoticons like the classic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Details

Glyph

🤷🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F937 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f937_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD37;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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