🤷️ Person shrugging emoji
HTML
🤷
Unicode
U+1F937
What is 🤷️ called?
🤷️ is called the Person shrugging emoji.
Often called the shrug person, i-don’t-know person, or unsure person. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.
What does 🤷️ mean?
🤷 is officially named person shrugging. It shows a person 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”. The base character does not specify gender. Related choices include 🤷♂️ Man shrugging and 🤷♀️ Woman shrugging.
Other meanings
It can mean shrug, unsure, uncertain, confused, indifferent, no idea, whatever, helpless, resigned, or unknown.
Example Usage
No idea why the calendar invite moved 🤷
Either option works for me 🤷
More details
Officially named person shrugging. Its code point is U+1F937. It was introduced in Emoji 3.0. It is the gender-neutral base character and supports skin-tone modifiers.
Variants
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Visual description
A neutrally styled 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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