U+1F9BB "🦻" Ear with Hearing Aid Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦻
U+1F9BB "🦻" Ear with Hearing Aid is a pictographic representation of a human ear depicted with a curved hearing aid device tucked behind it, intended to symbolize deafness, hearing loss, and the use of assistive hearing technology. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0 and is commonly used in digital communication to represent accessibility, the hard of hearing community, or specific topics related to audiology and hearing health.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9BB |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Ear with Hearing Aid |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🦻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🦻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddbb |