Deaf woman Emoji

People

A female figure pointing a finger toward her ear, signaling that she cannot hear or is hard of hearing. The gesture is a standard visual representation used in sign language to indicate deafness.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to identify as deaf or hard of hearing, discuss hearing loss, or signal that a person cannot hear someone speaking. It is frequently paired with other accessibility-related icons like 🧏 or 🤟 to discuss sign language or inclusive communication practices.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of the Emoji 12.0 update, this character was developed to expand representation for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, following a push for more inclusive human-centric icons across digital messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧏‍♀

Unicode

U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cf_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCF;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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