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