Typeset the shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji

Question

I'm completing a problem set, one problem for which I literally have no idea what to do on. The graders would prefer to have a physical copy of the problem so I thought it best to include the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji as my answer, instead of something like "Dunno" or "No idea."

Option #1 is to include an image.

Beyond that I actually don't understand how this emoji works. The middle character is Japanese kana "tsu" and proves problematic - TeX wants it in math mode then renders "?" when it is.

Answer 1

Free version with the default font and pdflatex:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,rotate}
\begin{document}
\rule[1.3ex]{.25em}{1pt}\kern-.1em%
\reflectbox{\small\ttfamily/}%
\kern-.1em\rule[-.2ex]{.4em}{1pt}%
\makebox{{\raisebox{.15em}{{\large\textcircled{
\ttfamily\kern-.35em%
\rotatebox[origin=t]{-120}{\bfseries\scriptsize`\kern-.3ex`}%
\kern-.15em\rotatebox{-45}{\bfseries\scriptsize)}}}}%
\rule[-.2ex]{.4em}{1pt}\kern-.1em{\small\ttfamily/}%
\kern-.1em\rule[1.3ex]{.25em}{1pt}}}
\end{document}

Answer 2

I used xelatex here, and specified the font that firefox used on my system to display your title. But switched to Arial for the arms as MS PGothic has a Yen in the backslash slot (long story:-)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{MS Gothic}
\setsansfont{Arial}

\begin{document}


 \textsf{¯\char92\string_}(ツ)\textsf{\string_/¯ }


\end{document}

Answer 3

Playing a bit with tikz, this is what I got:

\documentclass[margin=3pt]{standalone}

\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\shrug}[1][]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline,x=0.8\ht\strutbox,y=0.8\ht\strutbox,line width=0.125ex,#1]
\def\arm{(-2.5,0.95) to (-2,0.95) (-1.9,1) to (-1.5,0) (-1.35,0) to (-0.8,0)};
\draw \arm;
\draw[xscale=-1] \arm;
\def\headpart{(0.6,0) arc[start angle=-40, end angle=40,x radius=0.6,y radius=0.8]};
\draw \headpart;
\draw[xscale=-1] \headpart;
\def\eye{(-0.075,0.15) .. controls (0.02,0) .. (0.075,-0.15)};
\draw[shift={(-0.3,0.8)}] \eye;
\draw[shift={(0,0.85)}] \eye;
% draw mouth
\draw (-0.1,0.2) to [out=15,in=-100] (0.4,0.95); 
\end{tikzpicture}}

\begin{document}
Well, \shrug\ or maybe \shrug[x=1ex,y=1ex,blue]?
{\Huge or a huge \shrug}
\end{document}

Answer 4

This works with pdflatex.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\newcommand{\textoverline}{$\overline{\mbox{\phantom{L}}}$}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{min}
\textoverline\verb|\_(ツ)_/|\textoverline
\end{CJK}
\end{document}

And for XeLaTeX, an alternative to David's answer

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\myfont{MS PGothic}
\begin{document}
{\myfont ¯\reflectbox{/}\string_(ツ)\string_/¯ }
\end{document}

Answer 5

A bit late...

\documentclass[varwidth,border=5]{standalone}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\def\shrug{\texttt{\raisebox{0.75em}{\char`\_}\char`\\\char`\_\kern-0.5ex(\kern-0.25ex\raisebox{0.25ex}{\rotatebox{45}{\raisebox{-.75ex}"\kern-1.5ex\rotatebox{-90})}}\kern-0.5ex)\kern-0.5ex\char`\_/\raisebox{0.75em}{\char`\_}}}
\begin{document}
\tiny\shrug

\scriptsize\shrug

\footnotesize\shrug

\small\shrug

\normalsize\shrug

\large\shrug

\Large\shrug

\huge\shrug

\Huge\shrug
\end{document}