Woman shrugging: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with a medium-light skin tone lifting both shoulders and extending her palms upward. Her expression is neutral, capturing the universal body language of being unsure or indifferent.
Usage Context
Used in text chats to signal that the sender doesn't know the answer to a question, doesn't care about the outcome, or is simply throwing their hands up at a confusing situation. It acts as a visual shortcut for phrases like 'I have no idea' or 'It is what it is.' It is the gendered counterpart to the standard 🤷 and is often used alongside the 🤦 emoji to express frustration or exasperation.
History
The shrug gesture was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. The ability to modify gender and skin tone was a massive update to the emoji library, allowing for more specific representation in digital conversations that previously relied on generic or male-coded figures.
Details
Glyph
🤷🏼♀
Unicode
U+1F937 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f937_1f3fc_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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