Shrug

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]

Shrugging exercises can be used to strengthen one's trapezius muscle.^[14] Some exercises include:

• A shoulder shrug involves holding weights in one's hands and shrugging one's shoulders up, but without rolling them.^[15]
• A Hise shrug, so named for its inventor Joseph Curtis Hise (fl. 1930s – died 1972), involves putting a barbell behind one's neck and shrugging.^[16]
• An upward rotation shrug involves performing a shrug with 30 degrees of glenohumeral abduction.^{[17][clarification needed]}

• Indifference (emotion)
• Meh