Deaf woman: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-dark skin pointing her index finger toward her ear. The gesture mimics the physical motion of indicating one is unable to hear or is signaling a hearing-related condition.
Usage Context
Used to identify someone who is deaf or hard of hearing, or to signal that you cannot hear someone during a digital conversation. It is often used in combination with 🤟 to represent American Sign Language or general Deaf culture.
History
This emoji was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019 as part of an industry-wide push for better representation of people with disabilities. It builds upon the established framework of gender and skin tone modifiers to ensure users can represent themselves more accurately in global communications.
Details
Glyph
🧏🏾♀
Unicode
U+1F9CF U+1F3FE U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3fe_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
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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