This emoji is the digital equivalent of a helpless shoulder lift and palms-up “beats me” face. The man shrugging: medium skin tone specifically shows a guy with medium brown skin giving the universal “idk/it is what it is” gesture—perfect for uncertainty, mild chaos, or mock innocence. On Apple/iOS he faces forward with short hair, raised brows, a flat, neutral mouth, shoulders scrunched, and both hands turned up in a blue long-sleeve shirt—instant visual shorthand for “welp.” It often replaces the classic ASCII ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but it’s cleaner and faster to drop mid-scroll.
Use it to dodge blame, soften bad news, flirt with a playful “oops?” vibe, or caption a plot twist like, “Guess the algorithm wins again.” In group chats it lands as a sarcastic non-answer; on Twitter/X it’s peak resigned humor; in Stories it pairs well with “low-stakes drama” captions. Because it’s the male variant, it can read as “the guy in the chat has no clue,” but mostly that’s just styling, not a rule. Pro tip: stack it with a facepalm or skull for maximum “I tried” energy when plans implode.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3940 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤷🏽♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤷🏽♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤷 🏽 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤷 🏽 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f937, 1f3fd, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F937, U+1F3FD, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129335, 127997, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 B7, F0 9F 8F BD, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 267, 360 237 217 275, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD37, 0xD83C 0xDFFD, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd37, d83cdffd, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56631, 55356 57341, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F937 0x0001F3FD 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F937, 01F3FD, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129335, 127997, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F937\U0001F3FD\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD37\uD83C\uDFFD\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
