This emoji shows a Deaf woman with dark skin tone making the classic ear-pointing gesture, a visual nod to deafness and sign language culture. On Apple/iOS, she’s rendered from the shoulders up with soft gradients, a calm, confident face, and one hand angled toward her ear—clean Apple lines, neutral expression, simple solid top (often purple), and that unmistakable “point to ear” pose. People use it to represent Deaf identity, accessibility, and ASL conversations—but also to crack jokes like “I can’t hear the haters,” “turn on captions, bestie,” or “sorry, I suddenly went selectively deaf when drama started.” It pops up when you’re asking someone to repeat themselves, reminding folks to speak clearly, or playfully pretending you didn’t hear your ex’s 2 a.m. “hey.”
Online, it doubles as meme energy for noise-canceling life choices: muting group chats, skipping chaos, or signaling “say it louder for the people in the back.” It’s also used in advocacy threads about interpreters, captions, and Deaf (capital D) culture—respectfully highlighting communication access and inclusion. The vibe can be supportive, sassy, or delightfully petty, depending on the context. If you’ve ever typed “what??” three times, this emoji is your polite, stylish way of asking for round four—with better volume and maybe better vibes.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3191 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| 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 |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| 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, 1f3ff, 200d, 2640, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9CF, U+1F3FF, U+200D, U+2640, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129487, 127999, 8205, 9792, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x80, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 8F, F0 9F 8F BF, E2 80 8D, E2 99 80, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 217, 360 237 217 277, 342 200 215, 342 231 200, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDCF, 0xD83C 0xDFFF, 0x200D, 0x2640, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddcf, d83cdfff, 200d, 2640, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56783, 55356 57343, 8205, 9792, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9CF 0x0001F3FF 0x0000200D 0x00002640 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9CF, 01F3FF, 200D, 2640, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129487, 127999, 8205, 9792, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9CF\U0001F3FF\u200D\u2640\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x80\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDCF\uD83C\uDFFF\u200D\u2640\uFE0F" |
