Man shrugging emoji 🤷♂️
Emoji 4.0 (2016) · U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤷♂️ means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🤷♂️ are doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance, indifference, knows, man, maybe, shrug. They show what people use it for.
Search for doubt or dunno on your emoji keyboard and 🤷♂️ is among the results.
You will find 🤷♂️ among the people gesturing (30 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🤷♀️ 🙍 🙍♂️ 🙍♀️.
Besides the default yellow, 🤷♂️ has 5 skin tones, from 🤷🏻♂️ light to 🤷🏿♂️ dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🤷♂️ show on my friend's phone?
🤷♂️ has been around since Emoji 4.0 (2016), so it is safe to send to anyone.
What 🤷♂️ is made of
Technically 🤷♂️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🤷 person shrugging + ♂️ male sign. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🤷♂️
Search for man shrugging in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🤷♂️.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type man shrugging.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type man shrugging in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type man shrugging.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🤷♂️ is 4 code points (U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F), 13 bytes in UTF-8 and 5 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤷‍♂️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤷‍♂️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F937 \200D \2642 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F937}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%B7%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 B7 E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤷♂️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | man shrugging |
| Português | homem dando de ombros |
| Español | hombre encogido de hombros |
| Italiano | uomo che scrolla le spalle |
| Français | homme qui hausse les épaules |
| Deutsch | schulterzuckender Mann |
| Türkçe | omuz silken erkek |
| Bahasa Indonesia | pria mengangkat bahu |
| Polski | mężczyzna wzruszający ramionami |
| Русский | мужчина пожимает плечами |
| 日本語 | お手上げする男 |
| 한국어 | 어깨를 으쓱하는 남자 |
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the man shrugging emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤷♂️ "man shrugging" and links it with doubt, dunno, guess, idk. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people gesturing subgroup of people & body.
When was the man shrugging emoji added?
In Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤷♂️?
Yes. 🤷♂️ has these skin tones: 🤷🏻♂️ 🤷🏼♂️ 🤷🏽♂️ 🤷🏾♂️ 🤷🏿♂️. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.