Person shrugging
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- Shortcode
:shrug:- Shortcode
:person_shrugging:- Unicode
U+1F937- HTML
🤷- CSS
\1F937- JavaScript
"\u{1F937}"- URL
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What ๐คท means
A person shrugging with palms up. ๐คท means "I don't know," "whatever," or "it is what it is."
It covers having no answer, not caring, or accepting something you cannot change. It mirrors the text shrug ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ and works in any setting, from family chats to work threads.
Facts
Person shrugging ๐คท is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :shrug: or :person_shrugging:. People also look for it with words like โdoubtโ, โdunnoโ, โguessโ, or โidkโ.
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 3.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2019
2020
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.