Ear: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A detailed illustration of a human ear, rendered with a medium-dark skin tone. The design captures the curves and contours of the outer ear, highlighting the helix and lobe.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signal that someone is listening, paying attention, or overhearing a conversation. It is frequently sent as a prompt for others to share secrets or information, often paired with the 🤫 or 👀 emojis to build intrigue.

History

The base ear emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The modifier system for skin tones was introduced in 2015 via Unicode 8.0, allowing users to represent human body parts with diverse physical traits to better match personal identity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👂🏾

Unicode

U+1F442 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f442_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC42;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory body-parts

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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