Deaf man: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium skin tone pointing his index finger toward his ear, indicating that he is hard of hearing or deaf. This figure is displayed as an upper-body silhouette.

Usage Context

Used to identify someone as deaf or hard of hearing, or to signal a need for audio assistance. It functions as a clear way to communicate accessibility needs in digital conversations. It is frequently grouped with related accessibility icons like 🧏 or the general 👂 to discuss sensory experiences.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0. Its inclusion was a major step by the Unicode Consortium to improve representation for the disability community, ensuring that gender and skin tone modifiers could be applied to accessibility-focused gestures.

Details

Glyph

🧏🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9CF U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCF;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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