Meaning
This emoji shows a woman with both arms lifted in a shrug, palms up, and a neutral or slightly puzzled expression. It's the feminine counterpart to the man shrugging emoji, with identical gesture and meaning but reflecting female presentation.
The shrug is digital shorthand for uncertainty, cluelessness, or apathy. Whether someone asks you a question you can't answer, makes a decision you don't care about, or brings up something you're indifferent to, this emoji gets the job done. It's equally effective for genuine confusion and sarcastic dismissal.
Beyond literal "I don't know" responses, people deploy it when they're caught off guard, want to signal they're staying neutral in an argument, or need to express "not my business." It works great as a reaction to wild stories, incomprehensible memes, or situations that make you go "uh... what?"
Like its male counterpart, this emoji maintained consistency across major platforms since its introduction. It became part of Unicode Emoji 4 in 2016, and has since become one of the most frequently used gesture emoji in casual messaging, particularly for expressing doubt or indifference in a friendly, non-confrontational way.
Common Uses
- • Expressing confusion or bewilderment
- • Showing indifference to a situation
- • Responding when you don't know the answer
- • Dismissing something as not worth caring about
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
This emoji has become incredibly popular in customer service and support chats, where it softens the delivery of "I don't know" or "that's not something I can help with" in a way that feels less dismissive than text alone.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:woman_shrugging: :woman-shrugging: :woman_shrugging: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🤷‍♀️ |
| HTML (hex) | 🤷‍♀️ |
| CSS | \1F937\200D\2640\FE0F |
| JavaScript | \uD83E\uDD37\u200D\u2640\uFE0F |
| Python | \U0001F937\U0000200D\U00002640\U0000FE0F |
| Java | \uD83E\uDD37\u200D\u2640\uFE0F |
| Perl | \x{1F937}\x{200D}\x{2640}\x{FE0F} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F937}\x{200D}\x{2640}\x{FE0F} |
| Punycode | xn--2rsn-6bx-7k0-1e6n |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%A4%B7%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xB7 0xE2 0x80 0x8D 0xE2 0x99 0x80 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
🤷♀️ in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | মেয়েদের কাঁধ ঝাঁকানো |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 女生耸肩 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 女生聳肩 |
| Danish | kvinde trækker på skuldrene |
| Dutch | vrouw die schouders ophaalt |
| English | woman shrugging |
| English (UK) | woman shrugging |
| Estonian | õlgu kehitav naine |
| Finnish | olkapäitään kohauttava nainen |
| French | femme qui hausse les épaules |
| German | schulterzuckende Frau |
| Hindi | महिला का कंधा उचकाना |
| Hungarian | vállrándító nő |
| Italian | donna che scrolla le spalle |
| Japanese | お手上げする女 |
| Korean | 어깨를 으쓱하는 여자 |
| Lithuanian | abejojanti moteris |
| Malay | perempuan mengangkat bahu |
| Norwegian | kvinne som trekker på skuldrene |
| Polish | kobieta wzruszająca ramionami |
| Portuguese | mulher dando de ombros |
| Russian | женщина пожимает плечами |
| Spanish | mujer encogida de hombros |
| Spanish (Mexico) | mujer encogida de hombros |
| Swedish | kvinna som rycker på axlarna |
| Thai | ผู้หญิงยักไหล่ |
| Ukrainian | жінка, що знизує плечима |
| Vietnamese | người phụ nữ nhún vai |