Ear with hearing aid emoji 🦻
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9BB
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🦻 means
Ear with hearing aid 🦻 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: accessibility, aid, ear, hard, hearing.
Those words also drive emoji search: try accessibility or aid on your phone to find 🦻.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦻 sits with the body parts (18 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 👃 🧠 🫀 🫁.
You can send 🦻 in 5 skin tones (🦻🏻 to 🦻🏿) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🦻 show on my friend's phone?
🦻 dates from Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦻
To find 🦻 quickly, type ear with hearing aid into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type ear with hearing aid.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type ear with hearing aid in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type ear with hearing aid.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦻 as one code point, U+1F9BB: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9BB | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦻 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦻 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9BB"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9BB} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 BB |
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 | ear with hearing aid |
| Português | ouvido com aparelho auditivo |
| Español | oreja con audífono |
| Italiano | orecchio con apparecchio acustico |
| Français | oreille appareillée |
| Deutsch | Ohr mit Hörgerät |
| Türkçe | işitme cihazı olan kulak |
| Bahasa Indonesia | telinga dengan alat bantu dengar |
| Polski | ucho z aparatem słuchowym |
| Русский | ухо со слуховым аппаратом |
| 日本語 | 補聴器を付けた耳 |
| 한국어 | 보청기를 낀 귀 |
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What does the ear with hearing aid emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦻 "ear with hearing aid" and links it with accessibility, aid, ear, hard. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the body parts subgroup of people & body.
When was the ear with hearing aid 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.