The ear: light skin tone emoji is your go-to “I’m listening” signal—perfect for when someone’s about to spill the tea and you’re leaning in like a human satellite dish. It shows interest, eavesdropping energy, or a dramatic “say it louder for the people in the back.” Paired with 👀, it screams “lurking respectfully,” and in flirty mode it turns into a coy “whisper it to me.” It also pops up for podcasters, ASMR fans, or anyone announcing “audio on, brain ready.”
On Apple/iOS, this is a realistic side-profile ear in a soft, light-peach tone with gentle gradients. You’ll spot the sculpted helix, antihelix, and tragus, a tiny curved lobe, and slight pink shading in the inner folds—clean, glossy, very Apple. The ear faces sideways with a neat, clinical vibe (no piercings), almost like a tiny 3D model. Its neutral pose makes it easy to stack in combos, like 👂👀 for “I hear AND I see you.”
Culturally, it’s a meme magnet: Van Gogh jokes, AirPods flexes, “don’t use Q-tips” PSAs, and the classic “ear to the ground” when following rumors. Expect it in comment sections during messy storytimes or when someone’s mic is giving “can you hear me now?” chaos. It’s equally at home in sarcasm (“oh suddenly everyone’s quiet?”) and in hype (“listening closely, drop the details”).
The Ear emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1971 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | White Ear |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👂🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👂🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👂 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👂 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f442, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F442, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128066, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 82, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 202, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC42, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc42, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56386, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F442 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F442, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128066, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F442\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC42\uD83C\uDFFB" |
