Deaf person
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- Shortcode
:deaf_person:- Unicode
U+1F9CF- HTML
🧏- CSS
\1F9CF- JavaScript
"\u{1F9CF}"- URL
%F0%9F%A7%8F
What ๐ง means
A person touching an ear. ๐ง represents deaf and hard-of-hearing people and Deaf culture.
Deaf users and allies use it in posts about sign language, captions and accessibility. Some also use it to say "I can't hear you" or that someone is ignoring them.
The gesture is close to signs used in sign languages for "deaf."
Facts
Deaf person ๐ง is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :deaf_person:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โdeafโ, โearโ, or โgestureโ.
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)
- 20192 new emoji built from it (Emoji 12.0)๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.