Shrug Kaomoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The original ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — copy & paste the shrug emoticon for every “eh, who knows” moment.
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About Shrug kaomoji
The shrug — ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, sometimes called the smugshrug — is the most-copied kaomoji on the internet. The face is the Japanese katakana “tsu” (ツ); the arms are a macron ¯ and a backslash on each side, raised in cheerful indifference.
It’s the perfect reply to anything you can’t or won’t explain: “it broke ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”, “your guess is as good as mine”, “not my problem”. One tap copies the whole thing, backslashes intact — no more rebuilding it by hand.
Frequently asked
How do I type the shrug emoji ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?
Rebuilding it by hand is fiddly because of the backslashes and the macron over the first arm. The easy way is to copy it — tap the shrug above and paste it anywhere. It pastes identically into Discord, texts, Slack and docs.
Is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ a kaomoji or an emoji?
It’s a kaomoji — a Japanese-style text emoticon read upright. It’s built from regular characters (the ツ face plus backslash arms), not a single emoji glyph, which is why it copies as plain text everywhere.