U+1F937 U+1F3FD

🤷🏽 Person shrugging: medium 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 skin tone person shrug shrugging whatever who

Category: People & Body
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.

🤷 person shrugging U+1F937
🏽 skin tone U+1F3FD

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 skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

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🤷🏽 Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

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

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	person shrugging: medium skin tone
Русский	человек пожимает плечами: средний тон кожи
Deutsch	schulterzuckende Person: mittlere Hautfarbe
Español	persona encogida de hombros: tono de piel medio
Français	personne qui hausse les épaules : peau légèrement mate
Polski	osoba wzruszająca ramionami: karnacja średnia
Dansk	trækker på skuldrene: medium teint
Українська	людина, що знизує плечима: помірний тон шкіри
Português	pessoa dando de ombros: pele morena

Unicode CLDR 48

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