Person Shrugging
Previously displayed with a gendered appearance, now shown as gender neutral on most platforms.
A person shrugging their shoulders to indicate a lack of knowledge about a particular topic, or a lack of care about the result of a situation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Displays as raised shoulders, sometimes in conjunction with raised arms and flat hands. The shrug gesture in text (emoticon / kaomoji) form is known as a shruggie and typed as: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Unicode character Shrug ("Person Shrugging") does not specify a gender, though it was previously shown as a woman on most platforms. See also Woman Shrugging or Man Shrugging.
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