🤷🏾♂️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-dark skin tone) = 🤷🏾 (person shrugging: medium-dark skin tone) + ♂️ (male sign)
🤷🏾♂️ (man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone) = 🤷♂️ (man shrugging) + 🏾 (medium-dark skin tone)
🤷🏾♂️ (emoji style) = 🤷🏾♂ (no style) + emoji style
The meaning of emoji symbol 🤷🏾♂️ is man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone, it is related to doubt, ignorance, indifference, man, man shrugging, medium-dark 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-dark 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.
🤷🏾♂️Examples and Usage
🤷🏾♂️Images from Various Manufacturers
🤷🏾♂️Basic Information
Emoji: | 🤷🏾♂️ |
Shortname: | man shrugging: medium-dark skin tone |
Codepoint: | U+1F937 1F3FE 200D 2642 FE0F Copy |
Decimal: | ALT+129335 ALT+127998 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 | medium-dark skin tone | shrug |
Proposal: | L2/14‑174, L2/15‑054 |
👨💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)
🤷🏾♂️Trend Chart
🤷🏾♂️Popularity rating over time
🤷🏾♂️See also
🤷🏾♂️Extended Content
🤷🏾♂️More Languages
Language | Short Name & Link |
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Arabic | 🤷🏾♂️ رجل لا يبالي: بشرة بلون معتدل مائل للغامق |
Bulgarian | 🤷🏾♂️ мъж свива рамене: средно тъмна кожа |
Chinese, Simplified | 🤷🏾♂️ 男人耸肩:中深肤色 |
Chinese, Traditional | 🤷🏾♂️ 男人聳肩:中深膚色 |
Croatian | 🤷🏾♂️ muškarac sliježe ramenima: smeđa boja kože |
Czech | 🤷🏾♂️ muž krčící rameny: středně tmavý odstín pleti |
Danish | 🤷🏾♂️ mand trækker på skuldrene: medium til mørk teint |
Dutch | 🤷🏾♂️ man die schouders ophaalt: donkergetinte huidskleur |
Filipino | 🤷🏾♂️ lalaking nagkikibit-balikat: katamtamang dark na kulay ng balat |
Finnish | 🤷🏾♂️ kämmeniään levittelevä mies: keskitumma iho |