All 75 shrug kaomoji here hold both palms up. The first is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, which Wikipedia says is better known as the shruggie: two macrons for hands and the katakana letter ツ for a smirk. Tap one and it is copied.
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Choose the arms, then tap
Tap a tile and the shrug is copied. The groups go by what the arms are made of: macron hands, square corners, rounded corners, no hands, borrowed letters, then shrugs with a word. Search reads the labels: give up finds six, and awkward finds the three with a sweat drop. For a kaomoji shrug that fits a short name, Short keeps 5.
Why the left arm goes missing
Where text is read as Markdown, a backslash before an underscore is an escape, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ arrives as ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Copy ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯, the last tile under Macron hands, and it shows whole. Safe in Markdown keeps 47: that tile, and the 46 with no backslash in them.
Tips
The classic is not strictly shrug ascii art: ¯ is Latin-1, ツ is katakana. Keyboard only keeps 7 that are.
Wikipedia's list of emoticons files ヽ(´ー｀)┌ and ¯\(°_o)/¯ beside the classic, under mellow and shrug. Both are here.
Wiktionary gives さあ as no idea, not sure, dunno. ┐(´～｀)┌ さあ is under With a word.
Questions and answers
How do you type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on a keyboard?
Six of its nine characters are plain ASCII: a backslash, two underscores, two brackets and a slash. The hands are ¯, Macron, U+00AF, and the face is ツ, Katakana letter tu, U+30C4. Tap the first tile to copy it whole. \_(o_o)_/ is all ASCII.
Why does ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lose an arm when I post it?
The text was read as Markdown. The CommonMark spec lets a backslash escape any ASCII punctuation, so the one before the underscore is swallowed and ¯_(ツ)_/¯ comes out. Wiktionary records that form as a failed rendering. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ comes out whole.
What does a shrugging kaomoji mean?
It says I don't know, or I don't mind. Wikipedia describes a shrug as raising both shoulders, sometimes with the palms turned up, to show indifference or not knowing an answer. Wiktionary glosses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as a smirking face with arms raised in a shrug.
ʅ(´◔౪◔)ʃEsh letters for arms, goofy grin. Borrows ʅ ʃ from IPA Extensions and ౪ from Telugu.
ʅ(◞‿◟)ʃEsh letters for arms, sagging eyes. Borrows ʅ ʃ from IPA Extensions.
ヽ(´ー｀)┌One hand up, one square arm, mellow
ヽ(ー_ー )ノBoth hands up, eyes shut
ヽ(￣д￣;)ノBoth hands up, sweat drop, mouth open
乁( •_• )ㄏStroke arms, bead eyes. Borrows ㄏ from Bopomofo.
乁(˘ω˘)ㄏStroke arms, eyes closed. Borrows ㄏ from Bopomofo.
乁(ツ)ㄏStroke arms on the classic face. Borrows ㄏ from Bopomofo.
With a word 15
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ たぶんTabun: maybe, perhaps, probably
┐(´ー｀)┌ しょうがないShouganai: that is life
┐(´～｀)┌ さあSaa: no idea, not sure, dunno
┐(￣∀￣)┌ しらんけどShiran kedo: I don't know, though
┐(￣ヘ￣)┌ どうでもいいDou demo ii: not worth attention, whatever
┐(￣～￣)┌ 微妙Bimyou: subtle, or politely lackluster
╮(╯_╰)╭ 仕方ないShikata nai: it cannot be helped
╮(︶▽︶)╭ なんとなくNantonaku: for one reason or another
╮(￣ω￣)╭ まあまあMaamaa: so-so, passable
ヽ(ー_ー )ノ お手上げOteage: throwing up one's hands
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idkIdk: I don't know
┐(￣ヘ￣)┌ mehMeh: indifference
\_(o_o)_/ dunnoKeyboard shrug with dunno
╮(╯_╰)╭ oh wellOh well: mild resignation
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who knowsWho knows: nobody here does
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 75 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: each was put together for this page from the parts a kaomoji is made of (arms, brackets, eyes, a mouth). Some are forms in common use that nobody owns. The labels, groups and order are our own. Every character of every entry was looked up in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and must be an assigned, visible character. Emoji are left out. The hands of the classic are Macron (U+00AF) and its face is Katakana letter tu (U+30C4); the square arms are box-drawing corners (U+2510, U+250C) and the rounded ones are arcs (U+256E, U+256D). "Borrows" under an entry names each character from outside the blocks of punctuation, common symbols and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese letters, with its script from Scripts.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt) or, for a Latin or common character, its block from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). "Is on the emoji list" would name a character with the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt). "Safe in Markdown" was worked out by running every entry through commonmark.js 0.31.0, the reference implementation of the CommonMark spec (https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/, section 2.4, Backslash escapes; script fetched from https://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/commonmark.js on 2026-09-19): the chip holds each entry that comes out unchanged, and the escaped entry, which comes out as the classic. Other Markdown software may differ. The meaning given beside each Japanese or English word was read on its English Wiktionary entry (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ plus the word, or the form the entry points to) on the same day. "Keyboard only" means every character is printable ASCII. "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work