Deaf Person emoji
Type :deaf_person: · People & body
Unicode name Deaf Person · added in Emoji 12.0, 2019
What 🧏 means
A deaf person, signing. Part of the accessibility set added in 2019, which meaningfully widened who could see themselves in the keyboard.
How to type 🧏 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :deaf
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🧏 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:deaf_person: Search terms
Also found by searching accessibility, deaf, ear, gesture, hear, person.
Skin tones for 🧏
Deaf Person comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 🧏 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 🧏🏻 light 🧏🏼 medium-light 🧏🏽 medium 🧏🏾 medium-dark 🧏🏿 dark 🧏 in HTML, CSS and code
Deaf Person is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CF
- HTML
- 🧏
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F9CF}'
- CSS content
- "\1F9CF"
- Python
- '\U0001F9CF'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%A7%8F
Related emojis
:deaf_man: 🧏♀️ :deaf_woman: 🙅 :no_good: 🙆 :all_good: 🙋 :person_raising_hand: 🙇 :bow: 🦻 :ear_with_hearing_aid: 🙍 :person_frowning: 🧑🦯 :person_with_probing_cane: 🧑🦯➡️ :person_with_white_cane_right: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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