🤷 is called "Person Shrugging". Its official Unicode name is person shrugging.

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🤷 Person Shrugging

Person Shrugging is commonly used for doubt, dunno and guess.

👋 Gestures & Hands since 2016 · Unicode 9.0

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💡 Meaning

🤷 Person Shrugging is one of the gesturing people in Unicode's People & Body group. Typical contexts are doubt, dunno, guess and idk. The keyword list continues with ignorance, indifference, knows and maybe.

📱 Typical Usage

🤷 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. Added in 2016 with Emoji 3.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F937. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

✍️ Usage Examples

🤷 works as a one-character reply when doubt is the subject.
Fits messages about doubt, dunno, guess and idk.
Often seen near 🤷🏻 Person Shrugging: Light Skin Tone, 🤦‍♀️ Woman Facepalming and 🤦🏻‍♀️ Woman Facepalming: Light Skin Tone.

📈 Trends & Pop Culture

🤷 is mostly used when the subject is doubt, dunno, guess, idk and ignorance. In the wiki it sits in the Gestures & Hands category.

⚠️ Confusion Risk

Easy to mix up with 🤷🏻 Person Shrugging: Light Skin Tone, 🤦‍♀️ Woman Facepalming or 🤦🏻‍♀️ Woman Facepalming: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.