Deaf man: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with light skin pointing his index finger toward his ear, signaling that he cannot hear or is trying to listen. The design captures a common manual gesture used to indicate deafness or hearing impairment.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to identify as deaf, discuss sign language, or signal difficulty in hearing during a conversation. It serves as an important tool for accessibility and digital inclusion, often used alongside the sign language emoji 🤟.
History
Part of the effort to increase representation in digital communication, this emoji was added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. It builds on the standardized set of accessibility icons developed to better reflect the diverse ways people communicate in an increasingly online world.
Details
Glyph
🧏🏻♂
Unicode
U+1F9CF U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3fb_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
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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