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The center face of the shrug emoticon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is the Japanese Katakana character tsu (ツ). In Japanese calligraphy, the two strokes representing eyes and the curved stroke forming the mouth naturally resemble a confident, smirking face.
The arms are formed by macron characters (¯), underscores (_), and backslashes (\).
Reddit's Markdown parser uses the backslash (\) as an escape character. To prevent the arm from disappearing on Reddit, you must type three backslashes: ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯.
It expresses indifference, ignorance, helplessness, or 'who knows / whatever' in response to a question.
It is the Katakana syllable 'tsu' (ツ).
Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement, tap '+', set Phrase to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, and set Shortcut to &shrug.
It is an emoticon made of plain text characters, though Unicode also introduced a color Shrug Person emoji (🤷).
Yes! Both Discord and Slack even have built-in commands: typing /shrug will automatically send ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.