Person Shrugging
People & Body
Gestures
Unicode 9 • Emoji 3.0
What does the Person Shrugging emoji mean?
A gender-neutral person lifting both shoulders and turning open palms upward in uncertainty.
- Means ‘I do not know’ without assigning gender
- Shows indifference when no option seems better
- Expresses helplessness about circumstances outside one's control
- Can lightly dismiss a question with ‘what can you do?’
Emoji details
- Code points
- U+1F937
- Hexcode
- 1F937
- Unicode version
- 9
- Emoji version
- 3.0
- Category
- People & Body
- Subgroup
- Gestures
Shortcodes
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U+1F937 U+1F3FB
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U+1F937 U+1F3FD
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