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A single human&nbsp;ear. May&nbsp;be used in the context of listening, or hearing something.

The hear no evil monkey, called Kikazaru (Japanese for &ldquo;hear not&rdquo;), one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys">Three Wise Monkeys</a>. Depicted as the brown <a href="/monkey-face/">🐵 Monkey Face</a> with hands covering its ears.

The Three Wise Monkeys represent the proverb see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, frequently&nbsp;interpreted as&nbsp;a call for discretion or willful ignorance.

Often used as a playful way to convey I can&rsquo;t believe what I&rsquo;m hearing! or, more generally, to express astonishment or disbelief.

See also <a href="/see-no-evil-monkey/">🙈&nbsp;See-No-Evil Monkey</a> and <a href="/speak-no-evil-monkey/">🙊 Speak-No-Evil Monkey</a>.

This emoji is considered <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/how-the-monkey-emoji-is-racist/">racist in some contexts</a>, particularly when used to disparage, insult, and abuse people with dark skin, especially Black people.

Hear-No-Evil Monkey

A cartoon-style balloon used to represent spoken word in comics. Sometimes &nbsp;used in communication apps to&nbsp;indicate that another person is typing a message.

Speech Balloon

A form of <a href="/speech-balloon/" title="💬 Speech Balloon">speech balloon</a> used with angular edges, used to denote angry speech in comics.

Right Anger Bubble

An <a href="/ear/">ear</a> shown with a hearing aid, worn by a&nbsp;person with hearing loss. The style shown in Behind The Ear (BTE), but this can represent any form of hearing aid.

Ear with Hearing Aid

A red anatomical heart, shown with blue or purple veins on some platforms.

Sometimes used interchangeably with <a href="/red-heart/">❤️ Red Heart</a>.

Anatomical Heart

Pink anatomical lungs and trachea, shown with bronchial tubes on some platforms. Used in medical contexts to talk about lung health. Sometimes used in reference to taking deep breaths, hyperventilating, or breathing in general. Also used in the context of smoking or vaping.

Lungs

A pair of eyes, glancing slightly to the left on most platforms.&nbsp;The Google version of this emoji <a href="/google/android-4.4/eyes/" title="👀 Eyes on Google Android 4.4">previously</a>&nbsp;showed only a <a href="/eye/" title="👁 Eye">single eye</a>, despite the name of this character being eyes&nbsp;(plural).

Sometimes&nbsp;used to&nbsp;indicate &lsquo;pervy eyes&rsquo; to indicate approval of an attractive photo posted online; or&nbsp;&lsquo;shifty eyes&rsquo; to convey a deceitful act.

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Eyes

A single human eye, looking forward. This eye is in a different shape and style to the pair of <a href="/eyes/" title=" 👀 Eyes">eyes</a>, which are more rounded, and looking to one side.

Notably used alongside the <a href="/mouth">mouth</a> emoji to create the &quot;It is what it is&quot; emoji face: 👁️👄👁️. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here</a>.

A person gesturing with their index finger between ear and mouth, used as a deaf sign&nbsp;in American Sign Language (ASL) and a number of other global sign languages.

May also be combined with the&nbsp;<a href="/shushing-face">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a> emoji&nbsp;to reference &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mewing_(orthotropics)">mewing</a>&quot;.

See also <a href="/ear-with-hearing-aid/">🦻 Ear With Hearing Aid</a>.

Deaf Person

A man gesturing with their index finger between ear and mouth, used as a&nbsp;deaf sign&nbsp;in American Sign Language (ASL) and a number of other global sign languages.

Incorrectly displays with a female design within Windows 11 23H2.

Deaf Man

A woman gesturing with their index finger between ear and mouth, used as a&nbsp;deaf sign&nbsp;in American Sign Language (ASL) and a number of other global sign languages.

Incorrectly displays with a male design within Windows 11 23H2.

Deaf Woman

A singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Singer

A man singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Man Singer

A woman singer or rock star&nbsp;generally displayed with a <a href="/microphone/">microphone</a>, and sometimes <a href="/musical-notes/">musical notes</a>.

iOS and Android display this emoji as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie">Bowie</a>-esque figure while&nbsp;WhatsApp appears heavily inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)">Prince</a>.

Woman Singer

The silhouette of a person speaking. Faces left-to-right, with lines demonstrating speech being expelled. Sometimes used in the context of shouting&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansplaining">mansplaining</a>.

Speaking Head in Silhouette

A speaker cone displayed without any sound&nbsp;waves.

Speaker

A speaker cone displayed with one sound&nbsp;wave, generally used as an icon to indicate the decreasing&nbsp;of volume on a phone or computer.

Previously displayed&nbsp;with two sound waves on Android, instead of one.

Speaker with One Sound Wave

A speaker cone displayed with three sound waves, generally used as an icon to indicate the increasing of volume on a phone or computer.

Used by the Google Chrome browser to indicate which of your browser windows is playing sound.

Speaker with Three Sound Waves

A staff (or stave) showing a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef#Treble_clef">treble clef</a> and five horizontal lines.

Musical Score

A music note emoji,&nbsp;which can denote song lyrics, or other music related topics.

Displays as two eighth-notes (quavers in British English) connected with a beam. A single eight-note (quaver) was previously used in <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/musical-note/">Microsoft</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-7.0/musical-note/">Google&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;emoji designs.

Musical Note

Three eighth notes (quavers in British English), used to represent music or singing. Sometimes inserted&nbsp;next to&nbsp;quoted&nbsp;lyrics, to make it clear that they are part of a song.

Multiple Musical Notes

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord, Roblox, and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

👂 Ear on Apple iOS 8.3

👂 Ear on Apple iOS 8.3

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