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Woman Shrugging Emoji 🤷‍♀️

What 🤷‍♀️ means

A waist-length portrayal of a woman with side-parted hair, throwing her hands up in the air and parallel to her face while sinking her head a little lower into the neck.

The 🤷‍♀️ Woman Shrugging emoji refers to the universal response to anything we're too lazy to talk about; "I don't know". It can also suggest a lack of interest, cluelessness, confusion, and even doubt to a certain extent.

How and when to use it

If you're telling your bestie about an impossible situation or person in your life, you can use the 🤷‍♀️ in such contexts.
🤷‍♀️ can also be used while responding to something you genuinely don't know much or anything of.
If you're posting something ironic and eyeball-roll worthy on your social media feed or story, you can use 🤷‍♀️ as a way of saying "Don't know what the world has come to".
In general, 🤷‍♀️ is used to replace the phrase "I don't know".
If someone told you about something, but you don't remember much or anything of it, you can use 🤷‍♀️ to show that you are genuinely oblivious about it (genuinely is the keyword here).
You can also use 🤷‍♀️ as a way of showing confusion.
But, sometimes, the 🤷‍♀️ emoji can be interpreted as a rude or disrespectful gesture, so ensure to use it with people of your own wavelength and comfort circle.

Other Names

🤷‍♀️ Shruggie
🤷‍♀️ Indifferent
🤷‍♀️ Confused
🤷‍♀️ Whatever
🤷‍♀️ Uninterested
🤷‍♀️ Apathy (low-key)
🤷‍♀️ Doubtful
🤷‍♀️ Forgetful
🤷‍♀️ Careless
🤷‍♀️ Cluelessness
🤷‍♀️ Oblivious
🤷‍♀️ Helpless
🤷‍♀️ Unaware
🤷‍♀️ Unbelievable

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :woman-shrugging: Slack:woman_shrugging: Discord
Keywords: doubt, dunno, guess, idk, ignorance, indifference, knows, maybe, shrug, shrugging, whatever, who, woman
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.