🤷🏼♂️
What 🤷🏼♂️ means
🤷🏼♂️ is the Man Shrugging emoji with the medium-light skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
Shown from the waist up, this man has side-parted hair and shrugs, hands raised parallel to his face and his head dipped slightly.
Read the full meaning and usage guide for 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging →
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-gesture
- Codepoints
U+1F937 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 4.0
- Shortcodes
:man_shrugging_tone2:Discord:man_shrugging_medium_light_skin_tone:Discord- Keywords
- doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance, indifference, knows, man, maybe, medium-light skin tone, shrug, shrugging, whatever, who
- Variant of
- 🤷♂️ man shrugging · how tone modifiers work
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🤷🏼♂️ Man Shrugging: Medium-light Skin Tone or 🇨🇻 Flag: Cape Verde?