🤷️ Person shrugging emoji

The person shrugging emoji means uncertainty, indifference, confusion, or "I do not know." Use 🤷 when the answer is unclear, the outcome is random, or someone has no strong opinion.

It is the neutral version of 🤷‍♂️ Man shrugging and 🤷‍♀️ Woman shrugging, making it the broadest shrug for chats, captions, and casual replies.

Could also be called Person shrugging, shrug, shrugging person or unsure person emoji.

Other meanings

shrug, unsure, uncertain, confused, indifferent, whatever, do not know, no idea

Example Usage

No idea why the calendar invite moved 🤷

Variants

Related emoji

Expressions emojis

• 🙍️ Person frowning
• 🙍‍♂️ Man frowning
• 🙍‍♀️ Woman frowning
• 🙎️ Person pouting

Visual description

On iOS, 🤷 shows a person with both shoulders lifted, elbows bent, and palms turned upward. The raised hands and lifted shoulders signal uncertainty.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.