The deaf man: medium-light skin tone emoji shows a man signaling deafness or not hearing, with the classic index-finger-to-ear gesture and a neutral, friendly vibe. People use it both literally—Deaf/HoH identity, accessibility topics, “please use captions,” or “I can’t hear you on this call”—and playfully, like “sorry, can’t hear the haters over my peace,” or “me with noise-cancelling on 100%.” It pops up in memes about selective hearing, concert hangovers, or pretending you didn’t hear that awkward question in the group chat. During awareness moments and caption campaigns, it’s a quick, visual nod to Deaf culture and communication access without needing a whole TED Talk.
On Apple/iOS, expect a front-facing bust of a man with a solid-color top (in that saturated Apple palette), short hair, and one hand raised, finger angled toward the ear—clean gradients, crisp outlines, and a calm, approachable expression. The medium-light skin tone modifier adds a warm, tan hue to the skin, while the pose stays instantly recognizable as the “can’t hear” signal. No sound waves or extra icons—just the unmistakable ear-pointing gesture doing all the talking. Great for “speak up pls,” “AirPods mode,” and that timeless classic: “what?”
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2452 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🧏🏼♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🧏🏼♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🧏 🏼 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🧏 🏼 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9cf, 1f3fc, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9CF, U+1F3FC, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129487, 127996, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 8F, F0 9F 8F BC, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 217, 360 237 217 274, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDCF, 0xD83C 0xDFFC, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddcf, d83cdffc, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56783, 55356 57340, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9CF 0x0001F3FC 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9CF, 01F3FC, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129487, 127996, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9CF\U0001F3FC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDCF\uD83C\uDFFC\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
