🤷♂Meaning and Description
Coming from the expressive world of human acts, the 🤷♂ emoji encapsulates the spirit of someone shrugging, acknowledging the many times in life when we simply don't have an answer🤔. This emoji is ideal for expressing the attitude about lack of knowledge or care about a particular topic or situation. It can also be written as shrug or shruggie and typed as '¯_(ツ)_/¯'. It is usually used to express indifference, self-acceptance, ignorance, passive-aggression, annoyance, or uncertainty.
In everyday chat and the lively realm of social media, the "🤷♂" emoji has found a firm footing. It is frequently used to signify a feeling of "I don't know" or "Whatever, I don't care💅". It can be said a digital shorthand for expressing a reaction to something that seems unimportant, uncertain, or simply unknowable❓.
The genderless version of this emoji is "🤷", and the female version is "🤷♀️". By default, this emoji is displayed with a yellow skin tone as neutral but can be personalized with different skin-tone options.
💡Extended reading and popular science
🤷♂ (man shrugging) = 🤷 (person shrugging) + ♂ (male sign)
🤷♂ (no style) = 🤷♂️ (emoji style) - emoji style
The meaning of emoji symbol 🤷♂ is man shrugging, it is related to doubt, ignorance, indifference, man, shrug, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "🙋 Gesture".
🤷♂ is a zero-width joiner sequence, which is formed by combining 1 ZWJ zero width joiner and 2 individual Emoji. These individual Emojis are: 🤷 (person shrugging), ♂ (male sign). The new Emoji formed is displayed as a single Emoji: 🤷♂ on some platforms with good compatibility, but it may also be displayed as multiple Emojis put together: 🤷♂ on some platforms with poor compatibility.
🤷♂ (1F937 200D 2642) - minimally-qualified Emoji, See also: 🤷♂️ (1F937 200D 2642 FE0F) - fully-qualified Emoji.
🤷♂Examples and Usage
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🤷♂Basic Information
Emoji: | 🤷♂ |
Shortname: | man shrugging |
Codepoint: | U+1F937 200D 2642 Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+129335 ALT+8205 ALT+9794 |
Unicode Version: | None |
Emoji Version: | None |
Categories: | 👌 People & Body |
Sub Categories: | 🙋 Gesture |
Keywords: | doubt | ignorance | indifference | man | man shrugging | shrug |
Proposal: | L2/14‑174, L2/15‑054 |
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🤷♂More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
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Arabic | 🤷♂ رجل لا يبالي |
Bulgarian | 🤷♂ мъж свива рамене |
Chinese, Simplified | 🤷♂ 男生耸肩 |
Chinese, Traditional | 🤷♂ 男生聳肩 |
Croatian | 🤷♂ muškarac sliježe ramenima |
Czech | 🤷♂ muž krčící rameny |
Danish | 🤷♂ mand trækker på skuldrene |
Dutch | 🤷♂ man die schouders ophaalt |
Filipino | 🤷♂ lalaking nagkikibit-balikat |
Finnish | 🤷♂ kämmeniään levittelevä mies |