Deaf person: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone pointing a finger toward their ear. This gesture is used in sign language to indicate hearing or listening, but when directed away from the ear, it signals being deaf or hard of hearing.

Usage Context

This emoji is a primary tool for accessibility in digital text, used to identify oneself or others as deaf or to signal a discussion about hearing loss or sign language. It is frequently used alongside 🤟 to represent sign language communication or when discussing the needs of the deaf community.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a wider effort to improve representation for people with disabilities. The inclusion of this emoji followed an industry-wide push to move beyond generic character icons and provide specific signifiers for physical traits and cultural identities within the deaf community.

Details

Glyph

🧏🏼

Unicode

U+1F9CF U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCF;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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