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👂️Ear Emoji
The ear emoji 👂️ carries the codepoint U+1F442 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to People & Body → Body Parts.
What 👂️ ear 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 body, ears and hear and files it under People & Body → Body Parts.
Copy variants
ear carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 👂️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 👂U+1F442ear
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F442 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👂️ | |
| HTML decimal | 👂️ | |
| CSS | \1F442\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F442}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F442\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC42\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f442}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F442}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F442}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 82 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC42 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rgu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128066 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
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 “ear”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “body”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f442and 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 emoji mean?+
👂️ is the ear emoji, tagged body, ears and hear. 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 is U+1F442 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 👂️, in CSS \1F442\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F442}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👂️ emoji added?+
ear got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👂️ ear.