Deaf woman

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Shortcode
:deaf_woman:
Unicode
U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
HTML
🧏‍♀️
CSS
\1F9CF\200D\2640\FE0F
JavaScript
"\u{1F9CF}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}"
URL
%F0%9F%A7%8F%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F

accessibilitydeafeargesturehearwoman

What ๐Ÿงโ€โ™€๏ธ means

A woman with her hand near her ear. ๐Ÿงโ€โ™€๏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 ๐Ÿงโ€โ™€๏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 ๐Ÿง 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 โ€œaccessibilityโ€, โ€œdeafโ€, โ€œearโ€, or โ€œgestureโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿง+โ™€๏ธ=๐Ÿงโ€โ™€๏ธ

Timeline

  1. 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
  2. 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. deaf woman, Google (Noto) design from 20192019
  2. deaf woman, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. deaf woman, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 12.0

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