🧏 Deaf Person
Emoji Meaning
A person gesturing with their index finger between ear and mouth, used as a deaf sign in American Sign Language (ASL) and a number of other global sign languages. See also 🦻 Ear With Hearing Aid.
Deaf Person was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
Copy and Paste
🚩 Previously displayed a gendered appearance. Platforms switched to a gender-inclusive design for this emoji in 2019.
Apple Name
🧏 Deaf Person
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :deaf_person: (Github, Slack, Emojipedia)
Related
- 🧏 Deaf Person
- 🧏🏻 Deaf Person: Light Skin Tone
- 🧏🏼 Deaf Person: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- 🧏🏽 Deaf Person: Medium Skin Tone
- 🧏🏾 Deaf Person: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- 🧏🏿 Deaf Person: Dark Skin Tone
- 🧏♂️ Deaf Man
- 🧏🏻♂️ Deaf Man: Light Skin Tone
- 🧏🏼♂️ Deaf Man: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- 🧏🏽♂️ Deaf Man: Medium Skin Tone
- 🧏🏾♂️ Deaf Man: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- 🧏🏿♂️ Deaf Man: Dark Skin Tone
- 🧏♀️ Deaf Woman
- 🧏🏻♀️ Deaf Woman: Light Skin Tone
- 🧏🏼♀️ Deaf Woman: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- 🧏🏽♀️ Deaf Woman: Medium Skin Tone
- 🧏🏾♀️ Deaf Woman: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- 🧏🏿♀️ Deaf Woman: Dark Skin Tone
See also
- 👂 Ear
- 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid
- 🦮 Guide Dog
- 🙋 Person Raising Hand
- 🤟 Love-You Gesture
- 👨🦯 Man with White Cane
- 🦯 White Cane
- ☝ Index Pointing Up
- 👩🦽 Woman in Manual Wheelchair
- 👩🦼 Woman in Motorized Wheelchair
- 👩🦯 Woman with White Cane
Browse
- 🧏 on Instagram
- 🧏 on Twitter
- 🧏 on Wikipedia
- 🧏 on Yelp
- 🧏 on YouTube
- 🧏 on Google Trends
- 🧏 on Nomad List
Proposals
- 🧏 Deaf Person Emoji Proposal: L2/18-229