🤷 Person Shrugging

Copy and paste this emoji: 🤷

Emoji Meaning

1

Someone shrugs their shoulders to show they don’t know—or that they simply don’t care.

2

An asexual person making the classic "I don't know" shrug — as if saying "I have no idea". They're also shown with the shruggie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and mimicking a shoulder shrug.

This emoji works for anyone, regardless of gender. Use it when you genuinely don't have the answer. For example, if someone asks, "What are you doing tomorrow?" and you have no plans, you can reply with 🤷 instead of typing "I don't know".

Also Known As

  • 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • 🤷 Shrug
  • 🤷 Shruggie

Apple Name

  • 🤷 Person Shrugging

Unicode Name

  • 🤷 Shrug

🤷 Emoji Codes

Codepoints

U+1F937

Shortcodes

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For developers

URL escape code %F0%9F%A4%B7
Punycode xn--wq9h
Bytes (UTF-8) F0 9F A4 B7
JavaScript, JSON, Java \uD83E\uDD37
C, C++, Python \U0001f937
CSS \01F937
PHP, Ruby \u{1F937}
Perl \x{1F937}
HTML hex 🤷
HTML dec 🤷

Tags: doubt, ignorance, indifference, person shrugging, shrug

Category: People & Body

Subgroup: Gestures & poses