Deaf person emoji 🧏
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9CF
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧏 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🧏 are accessibility, deaf, ear, gesture, hear, person. They show what people use it for.
Search for accessibility or deaf on your emoji keyboard and 🧏 is among the results.
You will find 🧏 among the people gesturing (30 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🧏♂️ 🧏♀️ 🙇 🙇♂️.
Besides the default yellow, 🧏 has 5 skin tones, from 🧏🏻 light to 🧏🏿 dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🧏 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 12.0 brought 🧏 in 2019. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🧏
Search for deaf person in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🧏.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type deaf person.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type deaf person in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type deaf person.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🧏 is one code point (U+1F9CF), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9CF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧏 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧏 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9CF"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CF} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧏 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | deaf person |
| Português | pessoa surda |
| Español | persona sorda |
| Italiano | persona con problemi di udito |
| Français | personne sourde |
| Deutsch | gehörlose Person |
| Türkçe | işitme engelli kişi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang tuli |
| Polski | osoba głucha |
| Русский | глухой человек |
| 日本語 | 耳の不自由な人 |
| 한국어 | 청각 장애가 있는 사람 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the deaf person emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧏 "deaf person" and links it with accessibility, deaf, ear, gesture. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people gesturing subgroup of people & body.
When was the deaf person emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧏?
Yes. 🧏 has these skin tones: 🧏🏻 🧏🏼 🧏🏽 🧏🏾 🧏🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.