🧏‍♂️

Deaf Man Emoji 🧏‍♂️

What 🧏‍♂️ means

An extreme closeup shot of the right side of a man's face, and his right hand raised up to the face, with the forefinger touching the cheek along with two curved lines that indicate hand movement.

The 🧏‍♂️ Deaf Man emoji signifies a man with a hearing disability. This emoji's gesture refers to the sign language adopted by the deaf community as a form of communication.

It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

Use 🧏‍♂️ while describing someone with a hearing difficulty on text.
If you're texting someone about your hearing disability, use 🧏‍♂️ in such contexts.
You can also bring in the 🧏‍♂️ emoji in captions when the post is talking about the deaf community or anything to do with hearing disability.
Use 🧏‍♂️ in your own picture captions, because your life is an inspiration.
🧏‍♂️ can be coupled with the 🦻 Ear With Hearing Aid emoji while talking about deaf awareness or even in captions for similar posts.
If you or someone you know very closely has begun taking sign language classes, you can use 🧏‍♂️ while talking about it.

Other Names

🧏‍♂️ Deaf
🧏‍♂️ Deafness
🧏‍♂️ Hearing Disability
🧏‍♂️ Hearing Difficulties
🧏‍♂️ Hearing Aid
🧏‍♂️ Communication
🧏‍♂️ Deaf Awareness
🧏‍♂️ Deaf Adult
🧏‍♂️ Sign Language
🧏‍♂️ American Sign Language
🧏‍♂️ Auditory Difficulty

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F9CF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :deaf_man: Slack · Discord
Keywords: accessibility, deaf, ear, gesture, hear, man
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.