Deaf Person: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Deaf Person: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji mean?
When a person with medium-dark skin points a finger toward their ear, it typically signals difficulty hearing or an inability to hear. Sometimes the same gesture is used more casually to show that someone is listening closely.
The emoji shows a person of indeterminate gender with dark skin and dark hair. Depending on the platform, the character points to their ear or makes a gesture next to it.
This emoji is often used to indicate the inability to hear anything; less commonly it denotes a specific person’s deafness, or it can suggest the surrounding noise. Overall, it comes across as positive and optimistic, without a negative tone.
Unicode Name
- 🧏🏾 Deaf Person: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Deaf Person: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧏🏾 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9CF U+1F3FE
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%8F%F0%9F%8F%BE |
| Punycode | xn--pn8h76g |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 8F F0 9F 8F BE |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDCF\uD83C\uDFFE |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9cf\U0001f3fe |
| CSS | \01F9CF \01F3FE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9CF}\u{1F3FE} |
| Perl | \x{1F9CF}\x{1F3FE} |
| HTML hex | 🧏🏾 |
| HTML dec | 🧏🏾 |
Tags: accessibility, deaf, deaf person, ear, hear, medium-dark skin tone, gesture, person
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Gestures & poses