U+1F9CF "🧏" Deaf Person Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧏
U+1F9CF "🧏" Deaf Person is an emoji depicting a person who is deaf, typically shown with one hand gesturing near their ear to signify the act of listening or signing, and is often represented with variations in skin tone and gender through the addition of zero width joiners for male "🧏♂️" and female "🧏♀️" versions. Approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019, this character serves as a significant symbol for representation in digital communication, raising awareness about deaf culture, sign language, and the importance of accessibility within society.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9CF |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Deaf Person |
| 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 0xA7 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddcf |