A woman with her hand near her ear. ๐งโโ๏ธ represents a deaf or hard-of-hearing woman.
Deaf women use it to show identity, and it appears in posts about Deaf community, captions and sign language classes. Casually it can mean "I can't hear you."
Facts
Deaf woman ๐งโโ๏ธ 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 is a sequence that joins ๐ง deaf person and โ๏ธ female sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :deaf_woman:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โdeafโ, โearโ, or โgestureโ.