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 Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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