Person shrugging: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin tone raising their shoulders and hands in a classic shrug gesture. The facial expression is neutral, often featuring slightly raised eyebrows to convey uncertainty or a lack of information.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to response when you don’t have an answer, don’t care about the outcome, or are feeling indifferent toward a situation. It effectively replaces phrases like 'I have no idea' or 'beats me' in digital conversations. It is frequently paired with 🙃 to show a sense of playful resignation or 🤷 to emphasize a mood of helplessness.

History

While the shrug gesture has been a universal physical expression for centuries, it was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It was specifically requested by users who wanted a more expressive way to handle the awkwardness of text-based communication when a question stumped them.

Details

Glyph

🤷🏾

Unicode

U+1F937 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f937_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD37;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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