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🤷🏼 Person shrugging: medium-light skin tone

Skin tone A click copies the symbol with the chosen tone — no need to open a separate page.

doubt dunno guess idk ignorance indifference knows maybe medium-light skin tone person shrug shrugging whatever who

Subcategory
People Gestures
Shortcode
Unicode version
9.0 (2016)
Emoji version
3.0 (2016)
Status
fully-qualified

What the 🤷🏼 emoji means

A figure with palms up and shoulders raised. «No idea», «not my call», «what can you do».

The written equivalent of a physical shrug, and it lands the same way: fine for indifference, cold if the other person wanted help.

Chat examples

What 🤷🏼 is made of

This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.

  1. 🤷 person shrugging U+1F937
  2. 🏼 skin tone U+1F3FC

Will your readers see 🤷🏼

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

  • Apple always there
  • Google always there
  • Microsoft always there
  • Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 🤷🏼 emoji is used

The 🤷🏼 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how person shrugging: medium-light skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Skin tone · Gender

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Name in other languages

English person shrugging: medium-light skin tone
Русский человек пожимает плечами: светлый тон кожи
Deutsch schulterzuckende Person: mittelhelle Hautfarbe
Español persona encogida de hombros: tono de piel claro medio
Français personne qui hausse les épaules : peau moyennement claire
Polski osoba wzruszająca ramionami: karnacja średnio jasna
Dansk trækker på skuldrene: medium til lys teint
Українська людина, що знизує плечима: помірно світлий тон шкіри
Português pessoa dando de ombros: pele morena clara

Unicode CLDR 48

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