Deaf person: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A person with a medium-light skin tone pointing a finger toward their ear. This gesture is used in sign language to indicate hearing or listening, but when directed away from the ear, it signals being deaf or hard of hearing.
Usage Context
This emoji is a primary tool for accessibility in digital text, used to identify oneself or others as deaf or to signal a discussion about hearing loss or sign language. It is frequently used alongside 🤟 to represent sign language communication or when discussing the needs of the deaf community.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a wider effort to improve representation for people with disabilities. The inclusion of this emoji followed an industry-wide push to move beyond generic character icons and provide specific signifiers for physical traits and cultural identities within the deaf community.
Details
Glyph
🧏🏼
Unicode
U+1F9CF U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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