🤷🏼♂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: medium-light skin tone) = 🤷🏼 (person shrugging: medium-light skin tone) + ♂ (male sign)
🤷🏼♂ (man shrugging: medium-light skin tone) = 🤷♂ (man shrugging) + 🏼 (medium-light skin tone)
🤷🏼♂ (no style) = 🤷🏼♂️ (emoji style) - emoji style
The meaning of emoji symbol 🤷🏼♂ is man shrugging: medium-light skin tone, it is related to doubt, ignorance, indifference, man, man shrugging, medium-light skin tone, 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: medium-light skin tone), ♂ (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 1F3FC 200D 2642) - minimally-qualified Emoji, See also: 🤷🏼♂️ (1F937 1F3FC 200D 2642 FE0F) - fully-qualified Emoji.
🤷🏼♂Examples and Usage
🤷🏼♂Images from Various Manufacturers
🤷🏼♂Basic Information
Emoji: | 🤷🏼♂ |
Shortname: | man shrugging: medium-light skin tone |
Codepoint: | U+1F937 1F3FC 200D 2642 Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+129335 ALT+127996 ALT+8205 ALT+9794 |
Unicode Version: | None |
Emoji Version: | None |
Categories: | 👌 People & Body |
Sub Categories: | 🙋 Gesture |
Keywords: | doubt | ignorance | indifference | man | man shrugging | medium-light skin tone | shrug |
Proposal: | L2/14‑174, L2/15‑054 |
👨💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)
🤷🏼♂Trend Chart
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🤷🏼♂See also
🤷🏼♂Extended Content
🤷🏼♂More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
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Arabic | 🤷🏼♂ رجل لا يبالي: بشرة بلون فاتح ومعتدل |
Bulgarian | 🤷🏼♂ мъж свива рамене: средно светла кожа |
Chinese, Simplified | 🤷🏼♂ 男生耸肩: 中等-浅肤色 |
Chinese, Traditional | 🤷🏼♂ 男生聳肩: 黃皮膚 |
Croatian | 🤷🏼♂ muškarac sliježe ramenima: svijetlo maslinasta boja kože |
Czech | 🤷🏼♂ muž krčící rameny: středně světlý odstín pleti |
Danish | 🤷🏼♂ mand trækker på skuldrene: medium til lys teint |
Dutch | 🤷🏼♂ man die schouders ophaalt: lichtgetinte huidskleur |
Filipino | 🤷🏼♂ lalaking nagkikibit-balikat: katamtamang light na kulay ng balat |
Finnish | 🤷🏼♂ kämmeniään levittelevä mies: keskivaalea iho |