Deaf Person: Medium Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Deaf Person: Medium Skin Tone emoji mean?
A person with a medium skin tone holding a finger near their ear typically signals hearing difficulty or impairment. The gesture can also be used to show that someone is listening closely or asking for the speaker to be louder.
This emoji shows a person with a medium, slightly swarthy skin tone pointing to their ear. It serves as a gender-neutral counterpart to the emoticons deaf woman and deaf man.
It conveys the idea of deafness — a temporary or permanent inability to hear. In some contexts, it can also mean that the other person isn’t hearing you.
Unicode Name
- 🧏🏽 Deaf Person: Medium Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Deaf Person: Medium Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🧏🏽 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9CF U+1F3FD
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A7%8F%F0%9F%8F%BD |
| Punycode | xn--on8h96g |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A7 8F F0 9F 8F BD |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDCF\uD83C\uDFFD |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9cf\U0001f3fd |
| CSS | \01F9CF \01F3FD |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9CF}\u{1F3FD} |
| Perl | \x{1F9CF}\x{1F3FD} |
| HTML hex | 🧏🏽 |
| HTML dec | 🧏🏽 |
Tags: accessibility, deaf, deaf person, ear, hear, medium skin tone, gesture, person
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Gestures & poses