Man shrugging

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Shortcode
:man_shrugging:
Unicode
U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
HTML
🤷‍♂️
CSS
\1F937\200D\2642\FE0F
JavaScript
"\u{1F937}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}"
URL
%F0%9F%A4%B7%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

doubtdunnoguessidkignoranceindifferenceknowsmanmaybeshrugshruggingwhateverwho

What ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ means

A man shrugging. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ means "no idea," "not my problem" or "could go either way."

Men use it for uncertainty or mild indifference, such as when asked where to eat. It can soften a refusal or show calm acceptance of a strange outcome, like a game lost on a lucky shot.

Facts

Man shrugging ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐Ÿคท person shrugging and โ™‚๏ธ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :man_shrugging:. People also look for it with words like โ€œdoubtโ€, โ€œdunnoโ€, โ€œguessโ€, or โ€œidkโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿคท+โ™‚๏ธ=๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
  2. 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. man shrugging, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. man shrugging, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  3. man shrugging, Google (Noto) design from 20252025

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. man shrugging, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 4.0