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🤷 Person shrugging

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🤷 Emoji meaning

What can you do? No idea, uncertainty, shrugging.

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🤷 Meaning

“I don't know how I can help you” or “Such is life” . The shrug of the shoulders shows ignorance, confusion or the lack of interest in something. Text version: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Examples

I don't know either. 🤷
Oh well, it happens! 🤷
What should we do now? 🤷

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Person shrugging

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Person facepalming

Shrug vs facepalm; both reflect confusion or frustration with a situation.

Variants

Skin tones

gender

U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

Man shrugging

Skin tones

gender

U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

Woman shrugging

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Person shrugging” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0.

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ dunno + guess + idk + knows + maybe + person + shrugging + whatever + who

Keywords removed

- person shrugging

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ person shrugging

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ shrug + doubt + ignorance + indifference

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Comments

(3) Comments

Ruhi 12/28/2025
Not sure what to do. It's confusing, and there's no solution in sight.
Ashish 9/21/2025
What can I say... What can we do? 🤷‍♂️
Priyanka 9/2/2025
Of course! That's exactly how it should be.