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🤷Person Shrugging Emoji
Tagged doubt, dunno and guess, 🤷 person shrugging sits in Unicode's Gestures group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 3.0 (2016) at U+1F937.
What 🤷 person shrugging means
Whole-body reactions where a face is not enough. 🤷 and 🤦 carry the most weight - resignation and secondhand embarrassment - and both were encoded in 2016, late enough that they feel native to internet conversation. 💁, encoded as information desk person and now called person tipping hand, is used almost entirely for sass.
Unicode tags this one doubt, dunno and guess and files it under People & Body → Gestures.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F937 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🤷 | |
| HTML decimal | 🤷 | |
| CSS | \1F937 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F937} | |
| Python | \U0001F937 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD37 | |
| Rust | \u{1f937} | |
| Swift | \u{1F937} | |
| PHP | \u{1F937} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A4%B7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 B7 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD37 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ktw== | |
| Decimal | 129335 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 3.0 (2016) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🤷 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
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How to type 🤷
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “person shrugging”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “doubt”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f937and Enter. - HTML — paste
🤷.
How 🤷 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🤷Apple
- 🤷Segoe
- 🤷Noto
- 🤷System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🤷 person shrugging emoji mean?+
🤷 is the person shrugging emoji, tagged doubt, dunno and guess. Whole-body reactions where a face is not enough. 🤷 and 🤦 carry the most weight - resignation and secondhand embarrassment - and both were encoded in 2016, late enough that they feel native to internet conversation. 💁, encoded as information desk person and now called person tipping hand, is used almost entirely for sass.
What is the Unicode code for 🤷?+
person shrugging is U+1F937. In HTML that is 🤷, in CSS \1F937, and in JavaScript \u{1F937}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🤷 emoji added?+
person shrugging got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Gestures in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤷 person shrugging.