Person Shrugging emoji

🤷 · People & Body › Gestures · Emoji 3.0 (2016)

What does 🤷 mean?

🤷 is a person with palms up and shoulders raised: a shrug. It comes as a neutral person, a man and a woman (🤷‍♂️ 🤷‍♀️), each in five skin tones.

It means 'I don't know', 'whatever', or 'it is what it is'. Depending on the question it answers, it can be honestly clueless, relaxed and easygoing, or a little dismissive. It's the emoji version of the old ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

How people use 🤷

• where do you want to eat? 🤷
• no idea why it worked, but it worked 🤷‍♂️
• rain or not, we're going 🤷‍♀️
• he didn't text back, oh well 🤷
• is it too early for pizza? 🤷

Often used with 🤷

• 😅 Grinning Face with Sweat
• 🤔 Thinking Face
• 🙃 Upside-down Face
• 😂 Face with Tears of Joy
• 🤦 Person Facepalming

Make emoji art with 🤷

Paint with 🤷 in the emoji art editor, or turn any photo into emojis with the image to emoji converter.

Similar emojis

• 🤷‍♂️ Man Shrugging
• 🤷‍♀️ Woman Shrugging
• 🤦 Person Facepalming
• 🙃 Upside-down Face
• 🤔 Thinking Face
• 😐 Neutral Face
• 🫤 Face with Diagonal Mouth
• 💁 Person Tipping Hand
• ❓ Red Question Mark
• 😕 Confused Face
• 😒 Unamused Face
• 🙇 Person Bowing

Codes for developers

• Code points: U+1F937
• HTML: 🤷
• CSS: \1F937
• JavaScript: \u{1F937}
• Python: \U0001F937
• URL: %F0%9F%A4%B7

Details

• Unicode name: person shrugging
• Category: People & Body › Gestures
• Introduced: Emoji 3.0 (2016)
• Skin tones: yes

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