Woman shrugging Emoji

People

A female figure with both shoulders raised and palms facing upward, featuring a neutral or slightly bewildered facial expression. This gesture is the universal shorthand for having no answer or feeling unbothered by a situation.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji when you are completely out of the loop or simply do not care about the outcome of a conversation. It effectively replaces phrases like 'I don't know' or 'who knows?' in rapid-fire text chats. It is frequently used alongside 🤷 or 🤦 to emphasize frustration or total confusion.

History

While the standard shrug gesture was added to the Unicode set earlier, the gender-specific 'woman shrugging' variation was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It was part of a major initiative to bring gender parity to professional and emotional expression emojis, moving away from generic icons toward more specific personal identities.

Details

Glyph

🤷‍♀

Unicode

U+1F937 U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f937_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD37;‍♀

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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