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🤷‍♂” meaning: man shrugging Emoji

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🤷‍♂Meaning and Description

The "🤷‍♂" emoji, is fondly known as the "Man Shrugging" or "IDK" (I don't know) emoji. The emoji depicts a man figure with a short neck and arms raised in a shrugging gesture, the palms are facing upward, indicating a gesture of confusion or uncertainty. The facial features are simplified, with simple eyes and a mouth that may be either straight or slightly downturned.

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

🔸 🤷‍♂ What is the designer doing? Why does he go to do editing work while the web page revision hasn't been finished?
🔸 🤷‍♂ = 🤷 +

🤷‍♂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

👨‍💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)

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