The ear: medium skin tone emoji is your go-to for “I’m listening,” “spill the tea,” and “drop the audio, queen.” It shows you’re tuned in—whether to gossip, a voice note, or that podcast your friend swears will change your life. People use it to react to hot takes, ask for more details, or signal that they’re low‑key eavesdropping from the group chat shadows. It can also mean “say it louder for the people in the back,” or the classic “my ears are open” energy.
On Apple devices, it’s a realistic right ear rendered in warm tan tones, with soft gradients that sculpt the helix, antihelix, and a distinct little tragus. There’s no jewelry or sound waves—just a clean, side-on ear with smooth shading and a slight shadow that makes it feel 3D. The look is natural and slightly glossy, like a tiny portrait study of cartilage anatomy.
In meme land, it pairs nicely with the eyes emoji for a “seen and heard” combo, or with a teacup when the streets are talking. It shows up flirtatiously for “whisper it to me,” and sarcastically when someone mumbles a take they can’t back up. You’ll see it in “ear bleach” jokes after cursed audio, or in posts about ASMR, misheard lyrics, and voice memos that are way too long. Bonus points if you drop it during a “sound check” moment or to nudge someone to unmute in a meeting.
The Ear emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3498 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: | Olive Toned 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F442, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128066, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 82, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 202, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC42, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc42, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56386, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F442 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F442, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128066, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F442\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC42\uD83C\uDFFD" |
