A sort of modern-day hieroglyph, “shrug” was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and later Emoji 3.0 that same year. It is used to exhibit indifference- or a lack of knowledge or concern- on the subject at hand. See meh or indifference (emotion) according to the Rhodes scholars at Wikipedia.
Waiter: (anxiously checking his watch) Have you decided with which appetizer you’d like to start?
Egyptian Patron: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Waiter: wut
Egyptian Patron: oh, sorry about that. 🤷🏻 ♂️
Egyptian Patron: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Waiter: wut
Egyptian Patron: oh, sorry about that. 🤷🏻 ♂️
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Displays as raised shoulders, sometimes in conjunction with raised arms and flat hands. The shrug gesture in text (emoticon) form is known as the shruggie and typed as: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Person Shrugging was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 under the name “Shrug” and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Displays as raised shoulders, sometimes in conjunction with raised arms and flat hands. The shrug gesture in text (emoticon) form is known as the shruggie and typed as: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Person Shrugging was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 under the name “Shrug” and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
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