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🧏Deaf Person Emoji
Tagged accessibility, deaf and ear, 🧏 deaf person sits in Unicode's Gestures group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0 (2019) at U+1F9CF.
What 🧏 deaf person means
Whole-body reactions where a face is not enough. 🤷 and 🤦 carry the most weight - resignation and secondhand embarrassment - and both were encoded in 2016, late enough that they feel native to internet conversation. 💁, encoded as information desk person and now called person tipping hand, is used almost entirely for sass.
Unicode tags this one accessibility, deaf and ear and files it under People & Body → Gestures.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9CF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧏 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧏 | |
| CSS | \1F9CF | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CF} | |
| Python | \U0001F9CF | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDCF | |
| Rust | \u{1f9cf} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9CF} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9CF} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDCF | |
| Base64 | 8J+njw== | |
| Decimal | 129487 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧏 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧏
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “deaf person”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “accessibility”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9cfand Enter. - HTML — paste
🧏.
How 🧏 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧏Apple
- 🧏Segoe
- 🧏Noto
- 🧏System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧏 deaf person emoji mean?+
🧏 is the deaf person emoji, tagged accessibility, deaf and ear. Whole-body reactions where a face is not enough. 🤷 and 🤦 carry the most weight - resignation and secondhand embarrassment - and both were encoded in 2016, late enough that they feel native to internet conversation. 💁, encoded as information desk person and now called person tipping hand, is used almost entirely for sass.
What is the Unicode code for 🧏?+
deaf person is U+1F9CF. In HTML that is 🧏, in CSS \1F9CF, and in JavaScript \u{1F9CF}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧏 emoji added?+
deaf person got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Gestures in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧏 deaf person.