U+1F937 "🤷" Shrug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤷
U+1F937 "🤷" Shrug is an emoticon representing a person performing a shrug gesture, often used to convey a lack of knowledge, indifference, or uncertainty. Depicting a figure with raised shoulders, upturned palms, and a neutral facial expression, it visually mimics the common physical gesture of "I don't know" or "whatever." Officially part of the Emoji 3.0 standard in 2016 and categorized under People & Body, this character can be modified by various skin tone selectors and is widely employed in digital communication to express helplessness, resignation, or a casual dismissal of a question or situation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F937 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Shrug |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🤷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🤷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F937 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd37 |