The ear: medium-dark skin tone emoji is your go-to for “I’m listening,” “spill it,” and “I totally overheard that in the group chat.” It’s a single, side-on human ear with warm cocoa-brown shading—perfect for signaling attention, curiosity, or low-key eavesdropping energy. People drop it when they want the tea, when they’re hinting “say it louder,” or when they’re doing a dramatic lean-in for secrets. It can even get flirty—think “come closer and whisper.” Paired with a teacup or eyes, it screams gossip mode; with music notes, it turns into “earworm” or “ASMR time.” Used sarcastically, it plays the “sorry, couldn’t hear you over the drama” card. It also pops up in chats about piercings, tinnitus convos, or needing clearer audio on a call.
On Apple/iOS, the design is a photorealistic ear with soft gradients, a smooth rounded lobe, and defined cartilage curves—the swooping helix and inner Y-shaped antihelix are instantly recognizable. The concha has gentle shadowing that gives it depth, and there’s no jewelry or accessories—just a clean, realistic ear in medium-dark brown. The pose and lighting give it a subtle three-dimensional look, like a studio-lit reference photo. Culturally, it nods to classic lines like “lend me your ears” and modern memes about listening for drama. Drop it alone to say “I’m all ears,” or stack it with a shushing face, megaphone, or teacup to set the vibe.
The Ear emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3499 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F442, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128066, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x82, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 82, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 202, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC42, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc42, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56386, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F442 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F442, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128066, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F442\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x82\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC42\uD83C\uDFFE" |
