🦻️ Ear with hearing aid emoji

What is 🦻️ called?

🦻️ is called the Ear with hearing aid emoji.

What does 🦻️ mean?

🦻 is officially named ear with hearing aid. It shows an ear using a hearing aid and represents hearing technology, accessibility, audiology, or being hard of hearing.

Use it for hearing aids, adjustments, hearing tests, accommodations, assistive listening, and inclusive communication. It does not represent all Deaf people, many of whom do not use hearing aids. Related choices include 👂 Ear and 🧏 Deaf person.

Other meanings

It can mean a hearing aid, assisted hearing, audiology, hearing loss, accessibility, an ear mould, or device settings.

Example Usage

My hearing aid has a new music setting 🦻

A hearing loop is available in the hall 🦻

More details

Officially named ear with hearing aid. Its code point is U+1F9BB. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0. It supports the standard five skin-tone modifiers and was introduced with the accessibility emoji set.

Variants

Related emoji

Accessibility emojis

• 🦾️ Mechanical arm
• 🦿️ Mechanical leg
• 🧑‍🦯 Person with white cane
• 🧑‍🦯‍➡️ Person with white cane facing right

Anatomy emojis

• 💪️ Flexed biceps
• 🦵️ Leg
• 🦶️ Foot
• 👂️ Ear

Medical emojis

• 😷️ Face with medical mask
• 🤒️ Face with thermometer
• 🤕️ Face with head-bandage
• 🤢️ Nauseated face

Visual description

A human ear appears in profile with a small device curving behind it and an earpiece leading into the ear.

The behind-the-ear device is the key detail separating it from the plain ear. Colours and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.