Man Shrugging: Light Skin Tone
🤷🏻♂️ is the light skin tone version of 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- CLDR short name
- man shrugging: light skin tone
- Codepoint
- U+1F937 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Hex
- 1F937 1F3FB 200D 2642 FE0F
- Emoji version
- 4.0
- Unicode version
- 9.0
- First released
- 2016
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person-gesture
- Skin tone
- light
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRdoubt · dunno · guess · idk · ignorance · indifference · knows · light skin tone · man · maybe · shrug · shrugging · whatever · who
How it looks
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🤷🏻♂️ man shrugging: light skin tone emoji mean?
- 🤷🏻♂️ is the light skin tone version of 🤷♂️ Man Shrugging. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🤷🏻♂️?
- U+1F937 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F.
- When was the 🤷🏻♂️ man shrugging: light skin tone emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 4.0, published in 2016, alongside Unicode 9.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🤷🏻♂️ on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “man shrugging”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🤷🏻♂️ from this page with one click.