Person shrugging emoji 🤷
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F937
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤷 means
Person shrugging 🤷 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance, indifference, knows, maybe, person, shrug.
Those words also drive emoji search: try doubt or dunno on your phone to find 🤷.
On the emoji keyboard, 🤷 sits with the people gesturing (30 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️ 🙍 🙍♂️.
You can send 🤷 in 5 skin tones (🤷🏻 to 🤷🏿) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🤷 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), 🤷 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🤷
To find 🤷 quickly, type person shrugging into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person shrugging.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person shrugging in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person shrugging.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🤷 as one code point, U+1F937: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F937 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤷 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤷 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F937"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F937} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%B7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 B7 |
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 | person shrugging |
| Português | pessoa dando de ombros |
| Español | persona encogida de hombros |
| Italiano | persona che scrolla le spalle |
| Français | personne qui hausse les épaules |
| Deutsch | schulterzuckende Person |
| Türkçe | omuz silkme |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang mengangkat bahu |
| Polski | osoba wzruszająca ramionami |
| Русский | человек пожимает плечами |
| 日本語 | お手上げする人 |
| 한국어 | 어깨를 으쓱하는 사람 |
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person shrugging emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤷 "person 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 person shrugging emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, 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.