People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🤷♂️Man Shrugging Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 🤷♂️ in a text, they're saying they don't have an opinion or answer to your question. It’s a casual way to acknowledge something without committing to an explanation.
The 🤷♂️ emoji is a man with his hand raised in a shrug.
- Unicode
- U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-
shrugging: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
02 — Platforms
Man Shrugging emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F937 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man shrugging looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Shrugging emoji skin tones
🤷♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Shrugging emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man-shrugging:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man shrugging, code point U+1F937.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Man Shrugging emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man shrugging as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Shrugging emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man shrugging for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🤷♂️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the man shrugging and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🤷♂️ means in other countries
Carries the same globally consistent “I don’t know” meaning as the other shrugging figures.
Reads as indifference or genuine uncertainty, with no regional twist.
Can look like you’re dodging responsibility if overused on serious topics.
Before you send it: Use it freely for a genuine shrug; avoid it when you’re actually expected to commit to an answer.
10 — Apps
What 🤷♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F937, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🤷♂️ vs 🧏♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Shrugging
Code: U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-shrugging:
Generally, when someone sends you 🤷♂️ in a text, they're saying they don't have an opinion or answer to your question.
Unicode name: Deaf Man
Code: U+1F9CF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2019
Shortcode: :deaf_man:
Generally, it means a deaf man.
13 — History
Where the 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the man shrugging to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Man Shrugging was approved as U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🤷♂️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ