U+1F937
🤷 Person shrugging
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- People Gestures
- Also known as
- shrug
- 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
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 is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🤷 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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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
- 🤷 person shrugging
- 🤷🏻 person shrugging: light skin tone
- 🤷🏼 person shrugging: medium-light skin tone
- 🤷🏽 person shrugging: medium skin tone
- 🤷🏾 person shrugging: medium-dark skin tone
- 🤷🏿 person shrugging: dark skin tone
- 🤷♂️ man shrugging
- 🤷🏻♂️ man shrugging: light skin tone
- 🤷🏼♂️ man shrugging: medium-light skin tone
- 🤷🏽♂️ man shrugging: medium skin tone
- 🤷🏾♂️ man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone
- 🤷🏿♂️ man shrugging: dark skin tone
- 🤷♀️ woman shrugging
- 🤷🏻♀️ woman shrugging: light skin tone
- 🤷🏼♀️ woman shrugging: medium-light skin tone
- 🤷🏽♀️ woman shrugging: medium skin tone
- 🤷🏾♀️ woman shrugging: medium-dark skin tone
- 🤷🏿♀️ woman shrugging: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | person shrugging |
|---|---|
| Русский | человек пожимает плечами |
| Deutsch | schulterzuckende Person |
| Español | persona encogida de hombros |
| Français | personne qui hausse les épaules |
| Polski | osoba wzruszająca ramionami |
| Dansk | trækker på skuldrene |
| Українська | людина, що знизує плечима |
| Português | pessoa dando de ombros |
Unicode CLDR 48