Deaf woman: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman with one hand raised to her ear, palm facing forward, indicating she is unable to hear. This icon uses the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine the deaf person emoji with the female gender sign and the darkest skin tone modifier.

Usage Context

Used to signal deafness or a hard-of-hearing status in digital conversations. It helps clarify that a person may not be able to hear audio or voice notes. It is frequently grouped with other inclusivity-focused icons like 🧏 or 🧏‍♂️ to provide a complete set of gender-neutral and gendered options for communication.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of the Emoji 12.0 update. It was part of a major Unicode push to increase representation for people with disabilities, following a proposal that highlighted the need for icons that could accurately reflect the diverse lived experiences of the global deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Details

Glyph

🧏🏿‍♀

Unicode

U+1F9CF U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cf_1f3ff_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCF;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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