🤷🏿♂️
man shrugging: dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F937 1F3FF 200D 2642 FE0F
Description
Man Shrugging: Dark Skin Tone
Group:
People & Body > person-gesture
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Indicates indifference, confusion, resignation, or a lack of knowledge/answer.
Backstory
This emoji sequence combines the basic shrugging emoji (U+1F937) with a dark skin tone modifier (U+1F3FF), a zero width joiner (U+200D), the male sign (U+2642), and a variation selector for emoji presentation (U+FE0F). It was introduced to provide gender and skin tone variations for the shrugging gesture, reflecting a diverse range of users.
Usage Examples
- When you don't know the answer: 'Where did I put my keys? 🤷🏿♂️'
- Expressing indifference: 'Whatever 🤷🏿♂️'
- Showing resignation: 'It is what it is 🤷🏿♂️'
- In response to a rhetorical question: 'Why is it always like this? 🤷🏿♂️'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Widely understood as 'I don't know' or 'What can you do?'
East Asian culture:
Similar meaning, sometimes used to express helplessness or an awkward situation.