🧏️ Deaf person emoji
HTML
🧏
Unicode
U+1F9CF
What is 🧏️ called?
🧏️ is called the Deaf person emoji.
Also known as the Deaf person, person signing, or sign-language person emoji. “Hearing impaired” appears in older language, but many people prefer Deaf or hard of hearing as appropriate.
What does 🧏️ mean?
🧏 is officially named deaf person. It represents a Deaf person or sign-language user without specifying gender and is used for Deaf identity, signed communication, and hearing accessibility.
Use it respectfully for Deaf culture, interpreters, sign language, access needs, or a person who is deaf. It does not literally depict a universal sign for “deaf,” because sign languages differ. Related choices include 🦻 Ear with hearing aid and 🧏♂️ Deaf man.
Other meanings
It can mean a Deaf person, sign-language user, signed communication, Deaf culture, interpreter access, captions, hearing accessibility, or hearing loss.
Example Usage
The event provides interpreters and captions 🧏
I’m learning British Sign Language 🧏
More details
Officially named deaf person. Its code point is U+1F9CF. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0. It is the gender-neutral base character and supports skin-tone modifiers.
Variants
Related emoji
Gestures emojis
Visual description
A neutrally styled person holds one hand near the ear and lower face.
The hand placement is the defining pose; appearance varies by platform and should not be read as one complete sign-language word.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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