person shrugging Emoji
🤷 · U+1F937 · Emoji 3.0
What does the person shrugging emoji mean?
A person shrugging, the 🤷 emoji represents a gesture of indifference, resignation, or uncertainty, and is often used figuratively to convey a sense of "I don't know" or "I don't care". It can also be used to express a lack of knowledge or understanding, or to signal that someone is not taking responsibility for something. In slang, it is sometimes used to imply "maybe" or "I'm not sure", which is why it is often searched for as the "maybe emoji". This emoji is a visual representation of a common human gesture, making it easily recognizable and relatable.
person shrugging in every skin tone
This emoji takes a Fitzpatrick modifier. Click any tone to copy it.
person shrugging emoji examples
- idk what to eat for dinner 🤷
- asked him to help with the project and he just sent me 🤷
How to copy the person shrugging emoji
To use the person shrugging emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F937), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
person shrugging emoji on different platforms
How the person shrugging emoji looks on your device and in the openly licensed sets that include it (Twitter / X (Twemoji), Google Noto Color Emoji, OpenMoji). See image credits.
person shrugging Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🤷 |
| Name | person shrugging |
| Category | People & Body |
| Codepoints | U+1F937 |
| Shortcode | :shrug: |
| Sources | Unicode emoji list · codepoints.net |
| Emoji version | 3.0 (2016) |
person shrugging Emoji FAQ
It is U+1F937, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). On GitHub, Slack and Discord you can type it as :shrug:.
People also search for the person shrugging emoji as doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance.