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🦻Ear With Hearing Aid Emoji
The ear with hearing aid emoji 🦻 carries the codepoint U+1F9BB and has been in the standard since Emoji 12.0 (2019). It belongs to People & Body → Body Parts.
What 🦻 ear with hearing aid means
Anatomy used both literally and as slang. 👀 rarely means eyes - it means look at this, or I am watching. 💪 stands in for effort or a gym session. The 2019 release added 🦾, 🦿 and 🦻 as part of a deliberate accessibility push, and 🫀 anatomical heart and 🫁 lungs followed in 2020.
Unicode tags this one accessibility, aid and ear and files it under People & Body → Body Parts.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9BB | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦻 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦻 | |
| CSS | \1F9BB | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9BB} | |
| Python | \U0001F9BB | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDBB | |
| Rust | \u{1f9bb} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9BB} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9BB} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 BB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDBB | |
| Base64 | 8J+muw== | |
| Decimal | 129467 | |
| 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
- aid
- ear
- hard
- hearing
Appears in these collections
How to type 🦻
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “ear with hearing aid”. - 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 type1f9bband 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 🦻 ear with hearing aid emoji mean?+
🦻 is the ear with hearing aid emoji, tagged accessibility, aid and ear. Anatomy used both literally and as slang. 👀 rarely means eyes - it means look at this, or I am watching. 💪 stands in for effort or a gym session. The 2019 release added 🦾, 🦿 and 🦻 as part of a deliberate accessibility push, and 🫀 anatomical heart and 🫁 lungs followed in 2020.
What is the Unicode code for 🦻?+
ear with hearing aid is U+1F9BB. In HTML that is 🦻, in CSS \1F9BB, and in JavaScript \u{1F9BB}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦻 emoji added?+
ear with hearing aid 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 Body Parts in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦻 ear with hearing aid.