🧏
People & Body
deaf person emoji
Person with hand near ear — representing the Deaf community and hearing-impaired individuals.
Unicode data
| Character | 🧏 |
| Codepoint | U+1F9CF |
| Unicode name | DEAF PERSON |
| Added in | Unicode 12.0 |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subcategory | person-gesture |
| HTML entity | 🧏 |
| Shortcode | :deaf_person: |
Platform support
Apple / iOS✓ Supported
Google / Android✓ Supported
Twitter / X (Twemoji)✓ Supported
Platform designs vary — the same codepoint renders differently on iOS, Android, and web. Twemoji is the open-source reference used on this site (CC BY 4.0).
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