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
��‍♀
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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