Deaf Man Emoji
What does the Deaf Man emoji mean?
A man pressing his finger to his ear to signal that he can’t hear or has a hearing problem. The gesture can also be used to show that someone is listening or wants you to speak louder.
A bright yellow smiley showing a person pointing to his ear. Its primary meaning is a deaf person, which is the emoji's usual name, but its interpretation can vary with context.
For example, if someone suggests calling but your place is noisy, you might use the deaf person emoji to indicate you can9t hear well. It can also mean you didn7t hear something or that you misunderstood.
Apple Name
- 🧏♂️ Deaf Man
Unicode Name
- 🧏♂️ Deaf Man
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Deaf Man emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧏♂️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9CF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%8F%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--g5h1112o |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 8F E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDCF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9cf\u200D\u2642\uFE0F |
| CSS | \01F9CF \200D \2642 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9CF}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{1F9CF}\x{200D}\x{2642}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | 🧏‍♂️ |
| HTML dec | 🧏‍♂️ |
Tags: deaf, man, accessibility, ear, gesture, hear
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Gestures & poses