Deaf Person Emoji
What does the Deaf Person emoji mean?
When someone motions with a finger toward their ear, it typically signals that they have difficulty hearing or a hearing problem. The same gesture is sometimes used more simply to indicate that someone is listening.
This emoji shows a person pointing to their ear. It's rendered in the standard yellow tone and has a neutral, non‑negative expression.
A gender-neutral alternative to the deaf woman and deaf man emojis. It can indicate deafness, whether temporary or permanent, and is commonly used to let someone know you can't hear them for various reasons.
Apple Name
- 🧏 Deaf Person
Unicode Name
- 🧏 Deaf Person
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Deaf Person emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧏 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9CF
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%8F |
| Punycode | xn--8u9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDCF |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9cf |
| CSS | \01F9CF |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9CF} |
| Perl | \x{1F9CF} |
| HTML hex | 🧏 |
| HTML dec | 🧏 |
Tags: accessibility, deaf, deaf person, ear, hear, gesture, person
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Gestures & poses