Woman shrugging: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-skinned woman with her shoulders raised and palms turned upward, expressing uncertainty or a lack of knowledge. The gesture features a neutral facial expression that emphasizes a sense of apathy or confusion.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to response when you have no answer for a question or simply do not care about a specific outcome. Users frequently pair it with 🤷 to reinforce the feeling of being completely checked out or confused. It effectively replaces phrases like 'I don't know' or 'who knows' in casual text messaging.
History
The base shrug emoji was added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016, following the massive popularity of the shrug emoticon in early internet forums and chat rooms. The woman variation and the dark skin tone modifier were later introduced to provide more inclusive ways to represent the body language of indifference across different digital platforms.
Details
Glyph
🤷🏿♀
Unicode
U+1F937 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f937_1f3ff_200d_2640:
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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