🤷♂️ Man shrugging emoji
HTML
🤷,8205,9794,65039;
Unicode
U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
What is 🤷♂️ called?
🤷♂️ is called the Man shrugging emoji.
Often called the shrug man, i-don’t-know man, or unsure man. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.
What does 🤷♂️ mean?
🤷♂️ is officially named man shrugging. It shows a man lifting both shoulders and turning the palms upward and commonly communicates uncertainty, confusion, indifference, helplessness, or “I do not know”.
Use it for an unclear answer, random outcome, lack of information, no strong opinion, resignation, or a casual “whatever”. This sequence explicitly selects a man; use the neutral version when gender is irrelevant. Related choices include 🤷 Person shrugging and 🤷♀️ Woman shrugging.
Other meanings
It can mean shrug, unsure, uncertain, confused, indifferent, no idea, whatever, helpless, resigned, or unknown.
Example Usage
He had no idea who moved the chairs 🤷♂️
The man shrugged because both routes were closed 🤷♂️
More details
Officially named man shrugging. Its fully qualified sequence is U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. It was introduced in Emoji 4.0. This ZWJ sequence combines the base gesture with the male sign and supports skin-tone modifiers.
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Visual description
A male-presenting person is shown with raised shoulders, bent elbows, and two open palms facing upward.
The posture is the defining clue; hair, clothing, and facial details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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