Ear: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-toned human ear, shown from the side in a neutral, fleshy profile. This emoji captures the physical anatomy of the outer ear, designed to represent the act of hearing or paying attention.
Usage Context
Use this to signal that you are listening closely, eavesdropping on a conversation, or trying to hear something over background noise. It frequently appears when someone asks for feedback or clarifies that they are paying attention to a specific point, often paired with 🤫 when suggesting a secret is being shared or 🔊 when discussing volume levels.
History
The base ear emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The dark skin tone variant arrived later in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, as part of a major initiative to introduce the Fitzpatrick scale to the emoji library, allowing users to better represent physical diversity in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
👂🏿
Unicode
U+1F442 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f442_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory body-parts
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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