Deaf woman: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin holding her hand up to her ear, palm facing outward. The gesture mimics the act of indicating that one cannot hear or is trying to listen more closely.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss accessibility, hearing loss, or to clarify that the user is deaf or hard of hearing. It is also used in conversation to signal that someone cannot hear a voice message or needs a transcript, often appearing alongside 👂 or 🚫.

History

Part of the effort to broaden emoji representation, the deaf person emoji was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. It was developed in conjunction with organizations like the National Association of the Deaf to provide users with more accurate ways to communicate their lived experiences.

Details

Glyph

🧏🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F9CF U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCF;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

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

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