Ear with hearing aid
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- Shortcode
:ear_with_hearing_aid:- Unicode
U+1F9BB- HTML
🦻- CSS
\1F9BB- JavaScript
"\u{1F9BB}"- URL
%F0%9F%A6%BB
What ๐ฆป means
An ear with a hearing aid. ๐ฆป stands for hearing loss, being hard of hearing, and accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
People use it to mention their own hearing aids, to ask for captions or clear speech, and in posts about accessibility and audiology. It is a matter-of-fact identity symbol, not a joke.
Facts
Ear with hearing aid ๐ฆป is an emoji in the people and body category, under body parts. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :ear_with_hearing_aid:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โaidโ, โearโ, or โhardโ.
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2022
2024
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.