U+1F9CF · emoji since 2019
The deaf person points to their ear, the sign for being deaf or hard of hearing. It means deaf culture, sign language, and accessibility.
It marks awareness and inclusion, a symbol of the deaf community and communicating in different ways.
In texting, 🧏 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🧏 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Deaf Person emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the deaf person emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🧏 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.