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🧏‍♀️Deaf Woman Emoji

Q: What does the 🧏♀️ deaf woman emoji mean?

🧏♀️ is the deaf woman 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.

Tagged accessibility, deaf and ear, 🧏‍♀️ deaf woman sits in Unicode's Gestures group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0 (2019) at U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F.

What 🧏‍♀️ deaf woman 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.

How 🧏‍♀️ is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

🧏U+1F9CFdeaf person
·U+200DZero-width joiner
♀U+2640female sign
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🧏‍♀️`
HTML decimal	`🧏‍♀️`
CSS	`\1F9CF\200D\2640\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F9CF}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F9CF\U0000200D\U00002640\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDDCF\u200D\u2640\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f9cf}\u{200d}\u{2640}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F9CF}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F9CF}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A7%8F%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A7 8F E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DDCF 200D 2640 FE0F`
Base64	`8J+nj+KAjeKZgO+4jw==`
Decimal	`129487 8205 9792 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 12.0 (2019)

Skin-tone variants

The 🧏‍♀️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

accessibility
deaf
ear
gesture
hear
woman

Appears in these collections

How to type 🧏‍♀️

Windows — press Win + . and search “deaf woman”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “accessibility”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f9cf and 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 woman emoji mean?+

🧏‍♀️ is the deaf woman 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 woman is U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🧏‍♀️, in CSS \1F9CF\200D\2640\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F9CF}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🧏‍♀️ emoji added?+

deaf woman 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.

Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧏‍♀️ deaf woman.