Woman shrugging emoji 🤷♀️
Emoji 4.0 (2016) · U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤷♀️ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Woman shrugging 🤷♀️ is tagged with these keywords: doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance, indifference, knows, maybe, shrug, shrugging.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing doubt or dunno in the emoji search brings up 🤷♀️.
Woman shrugging 🤷♀️ is one of 30 emoji in the people gesturing subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🙍 🙍♂️ 🙍♀️ 🙎.
🤷♀️ comes in 5 skin tones, from 🤷🏻♀️ to 🤷🏿♀️, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🤷♀️ show on my friend's phone?
🤷♀️ arrived with Emoji 4.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
What 🤷♀️ is made of
Technically 🤷♀️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🤷 person shrugging + ♀️ female sign. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🤷♀️
Any emoji picker finds 🤷♀️ when you search for woman shrugging.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type woman shrugging.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type woman shrugging in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type woman shrugging.
Codes for developers
Woman shrugging 🤷♀️ is written with 4 code points: U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. In UTF-8 it takes 13 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤷‍♀️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤷‍♀️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F937 \200D \2640 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F937}\u200D\u2640\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%B7%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 B7 E2 80 8D E2 99 80 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 | woman shrugging |
| Português | mulher dando de ombros |
| Español | mujer encogida de hombros |
| Italiano | donna che scrolla le spalle |
| Français | femme qui hausse les épaules |
| Deutsch | schulterzuckende Frau |
| Türkçe | omuz silken kadın |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wanita mengangkat bahu |
| Polski | kobieta wzruszająca ramionami |
| Русский | женщина пожимает плечами |
| 日本語 | お手上げする女 |
| 한국어 | 어깨를 으쓱하는 여자 |
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the woman shrugging emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤷♀️ "woman 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 woman 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.