🤷 Meaning – Person Shrugging Emoji

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This emoji shows a lack of information on the subject, or not caring about the result. Shrug Emoji can express anything from from "I don't know" to a "Whatever!", or simply ignoring the person's question. Distinctive features of shrug gesture are shrugged shoulders, raised eyebrows and turned-down mouth.

The Person Shrugging Emoji appeared in 2016, and now is mainly known as the Shrug Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Shrug Face. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Idk Emoji.

Shrug Emoji, Apple style
Apple
Shrug Emoji, Microsoft style
Microsoft
Person Shrugging Emoji, Samsung style
Samsung
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Browser / Native
Person Shrugging Emoji, Emoji One style
Emoji One
Shrug Emoji, Facebook style
Facebook Messenger
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ASCII Emoticon

Shrug Emoji details

Symbol to copy
Uncode codepoint
U+1F937
Unicode name
Person Shrugging
Category
Smileys & People / Gestures
Keywords
doubt, ignorance, indifference, shrug
Windows Alt-code
Alt+1F937
Decimal HTML Entity
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Hex HTML Entity
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UTF-16 hex
0xD83E 0xDD37
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrug
Version
Unicode 9.0
Year
2016 (see all emoji of 2016)

🤷 emoji variants

🌐 Shrug Emoji translations

LanguageCLDR NameKeywords
Deutschschulterzuckende Personegal, gleichgültig, keine Ahnung, Zweifel
Françaispersonne qui hausse les épaulesdoute, haussement d’épaules, ignorance, indifférence
Русскийчеловек пожимает плечамине знаю, пожимает плечами, равнодушие, сомнение
Españolpersona encogida de hombrosduda, encogerse, hombros, indiferencia
Italianopersona che scrolla le spalledubbio, indifferenza, noncuranza, spalle alzate
Portuguêspessoa dando de ombrosdar de ombros, ignorância, indiferença, ombros
Polskiosoba wzruszająca ramionaminiewiedza, obojętność, wątpliwość

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How to type Person Shrugging Emoji

There are number of methods to type Shrug Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🤷 emoji

It's very easy to get Person Shrugging Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🤷 meaning and look at 🤷 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

Shrug Emoji HTML-entities

HTML entites are intended for using on websites. You can put Person Shrugging Emoji html entity code in decimal or hexadecimal form right in your message, and it will be translated into graphical representation of Shrug Emoji after you submit.

🤷 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

  1. Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.
  2. Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.
  3. Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit
  4. Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.

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