🤷♂️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.
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)
🤷♂️ (emoji style) = 🤷♂ (no 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.
🤷♂️Examples and Usage
🤷♂️Images from Various Manufacturers
🤷♂️Basic Information
Emoji: | 🤷♂️ |
Shortname: | man shrugging |
Apple Name: | man shrugging |
Known as: | idk |
Codepoint: | U+1F937 200D 2642 FE0F Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+129335 ALT+8205 ALT+9794 ALT+65039 |
Unicode Version: | None |
Emoji Version: | 4.0 (2016-11-22) |
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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🤷♂️Popularity rating over time
🤷♂️See also
🤷♂️Extended Content
🤷♂️More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
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Arabic | 🤷♂️ رجل لا يبالي |
Bulgarian | 🤷♂️ мъж свива рамене |
Chinese, Simplified | 🤷♂️ 男人耸肩 |
Chinese, Traditional | 🤷♂️ 男人聳肩 |
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 |
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