The ear: medium-light skin tone emoji is your digital way of leaning in and saying, “I’m listening—spill the tea.” It pops up when you’re fishing for details, hyping a voice note, or hinting that you just overheard something wildly out of pocket. It can be supportive (“I’m all ears, tell me everything”), petty (“say it louder, I can’t hear the haters”), or flirty in a close-up-whisper kind of way. Pair it with eyes or a teacup for full gossip mode, or toss it after a hot take to invite replies like a human comment section.
On Apple devices, this looks like a realistic left-facing ear with a warm, peachy-beige medium-light skin tone; you’ll notice the curved helix, defined antihelix, tiny tragus, and a soft gradient inside the ear that gives it a slightly glossy, 3D feel. The lobe is rounded, the shading is subtle, and the whole thing leans forward just enough to read as “listening.” It’s often teamed with 👀, 🤫, 🔊, or ☕ to signal eavesdropping, secrets, or “sound on” energy. Don’t mix it up with the separate Ear with Hearing Aid emoji—this one is the plain ear, perfect for gossip updates, ASMR jokes, and that classic “keep your ear to the ground” vibe.
The Ear emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3497 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F442, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128066, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 82, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 202, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC42, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc42, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56386, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F442 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F442, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128066, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F442\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC42\uD83C\uDFFC" |
