An ear fitted with a hearing aid, this emoji represents the hard-of-hearing and deaf community specifically, part of Unicode's 2019 accessibility push. It's used in disability-advocacy content and by anyone who wants their emoji keyboard to reflect wearing a hearing aid.
What 🦻 means
A single human ear with the hearing aid attached to the top half of the ear (from the helix to the mid-back of the ear). This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
The 🦻 Ear With Hearing Aid emoji is exactly like the 👂 Ear emoji, but with the added hearing aid. This addition brings about a sense of inclusivity, by including this part of humans with hearing difficulties and disabilities.
How and when to use it
- If you or someone you know closely got hearing aids, send the 🦻 emoji to your pals to let them know about it.
- If you're introducing yourself to someone online and you want to tell them that you have hearing loss or are under the assistance of a hearing aid, pop in the 🦻.
- 🦻 can also indicate clear hearing, heightened hearing abilities, and above the normal level of auditory vigilance. So, the next time someone messes with you, use this emoji and tell them that you have enhanced ears that work like magic.
- If you're trying to recommend hearing aids to a dear one, use the 🦻 emoji while explaining why they need it.
Other Names
- 🦻 Hearing Loss
- 🦻 Hearing Deficit
- 🦻 Hearing Disability
- 🦻 Heightened Hearing
- 🦻 Assisted Hearing
- 🦻 Enhanced Auditory
- 🦻 Hearing Aids
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › body-parts
- Codepoints
U+1F9BB- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:ear_with_hearing_aid:- Keywords
- accessibility, aid, ear, hard, hearing
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.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid or 🐛 Bug?