🤷‍♂️

Man Shrugging Emoji 🤷‍♂️

What 🤷‍♂️ means

Shown from the waist up, this man has side-parted hair and shrugs, hands raised parallel to his face and his head dipped slightly.

The 🤷‍♂️ Man Shrugging emoji suggests indifference, confusion, cluelessness, and even a sense of low-key apathy. This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If someone's texting you about something you don't really pay much heed to generally, you can use 🤷‍♂️ in the response texts.
You can also use 🤷‍♂️ as a way of saying "I don't know what you're talking about".
If someone's been asking you about something you're either unsure of or just have no idea about it whatsoever, you can use 🤷‍♂️.
🤷‍♂️ can also be used in any context that involves the "I don't know" phrase.
If you're disinterested in the topic that's going on in your chats, you can use 🤷‍♂️ as a neutral response (hopefully, the other person would get that you couldn't care any less).
You could bring the 🤷‍♂️ emoji into your captions while posting about something cringy and unimaginable that happened.
However, sometimes, the 🤷‍♂️ emoji might come off as a disrespectful gesture (both on text and in real life). So, use it only with people who you think might be okay with that emoji and gesture.

Other Names

🤷‍♂️ I Don't Know
🤷‍♂️ Uninterested
🤷‍♂️ Confused
🤷‍♂️ Clueless
🤷‍♂️ Apathetic
🤷‍♂️ Unfriendly
🤷‍♂️ Shruggie
🤷‍♂️ Shrug
🤷‍♂️ Careless
🤷‍♂️ Doubtful
🤷‍♂️ Indifference
🤷‍♂️ Disrespectful
🤷‍♂️ Unbelievable

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-shrugging: Slack:man_shrugging: Discord
Keywords: doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance, indifference, knows, man, maybe, shrug, shrugging, whatever, who
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.