Shrug

A shrug is a gesture performed by raising both shoulders, and is a representation of an individual either being indifferent about something or not knowing an answer to a question.[1]

For other uses, see Shrug (disambiguation).
A man wearing a tiara, a loosened paisley necktie, and a pair of glasses with a beverage shrugging at the camera.
A man shrugging

Shrugging

The shoulder-raising action may be accompanied by rotating the palms upwards, pulling closed lips downwards, raising the eyebrows or tilting the head to one side.[2] A shrug is an emblem, meaning that it integrates the vocabulary of only certain cultures and may be used in place of words.[3] In many countries, such as the United States, Sweden and Morocco, a shrug represents hesitation or lack of knowledge; however, in other countries, such as Japan and China, shrugging is uncommon and is not used to show hesitation. People from the Philippines, Iran and Iraq may interpret a shrug as a somewhat impolite sign of confidence.[4]

Gallic shrug

The Gallic shrug, "generally a nuanced gesture with myriad meanings",[5] is performed by sticking out your lower lip, raising your eyebrows and shoulders simultaneously,[6][7][8][9][10] and voicing a nonchalant bof.[11]

Emoji

The shrug gesture is a Unicode emoji included as U+1F937 🤷 SHRUG.[12] The shrug emoticon, better known as the shruggie, made from Unicode characters, is also typed as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, where "ツ" is the character tsu from Japanese katakana. [13]

See also

References
  1. "Shrug | Define Shrug at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  2. Debras, Camille (29 June 2017). "The shrug: Forms and meanings of a compound enactment". Gesture. 16 (1): 1–34. doi:10.1075/gest.16.1.01deb. ISSN 1568-1475. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  3. Ekman, Paul (2009). Telling Lies. W. W. Norton. p. 101. ISBN 9780393081749.
  4. Jokinen, Kristiina; Allwood, Jens (2010). "Hesitation in Intercultural Communication: Some Observations and Analyses on Interpreting Shoulder Shrugging". In Ishida, Toru (ed.). Culture and Computing: Computing and Communication for Crosscultural Interaction. Vol. 6259. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. pp. 55–70. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17184-0_5. ISBN 978-3-642-17183-3. ISSN 0302-9743.
  5. Greenspan, Dorie (20 January 2017). "Long before the toast craze in the U.S., the French were making tartines". Washington Post. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  6. Allen, Peter (4 January 2007). "To offend the French, fondle a slice of cheese". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  7. "French Facial Expressions". The Good Life France. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  8. Rhodes, Peter (October 13, 2021). "Peter Rhodes on a cheesy lesson, the Gallic shrug and waiting for the male of the species to improve". shropshirestar.com. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  9. Nehring, Cristina (May 16, 2011). "Letter From Paris: A Gallic Shrug for DSK". nymag.com Intelligencer. Vox Media, LLC. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  10. "How the French Speak With Their Hands". ThoughtCo. January 4, 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  11. "The Language". Domaines & Terroirs. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  12. "Shrug Emoji". Emojipedia. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  13. "Shrug Emoticon". Textpopo. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
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