Deaf Woman
🧏♀️ is the deaf woman emoji, part of Unicode's People & Body group, added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unicode's keyword list links it with “accessibility”, “ear”, “gesture”, and “hear”.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- CLDR short name
- deaf woman
- Codepoint
- U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Hex
- 1F9CF 200D 2640 FE0F
- Emoji version
- 12.0
- Unicode version
- 12.0
- First released
- 2019
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person-gesture
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:deaf_woman:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRaccessibility · deaf · ear · gesture · hear · woman
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🧏♀️ deaf woman emoji mean?
- 🧏♀️ is the deaf woman emoji, part of Unicode's People & Body group, added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unicode's keyword list links it with “accessibility”, “ear”, “gesture”, and “hear”.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🧏♀️?
- U+1F9CF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F.
- When was the 🧏♀️ deaf woman emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 12.0, published in 2019, alongside Unicode 12.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🧏♀️ on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “deaf woman”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🧏♀️ from this page with one click.
- Does 🧏♀️ come in different skin tones?
- Yes. There are 5 skin-tone versions: 🧏🏻♀️ 🧏🏼♀️ 🧏🏽♀️ 🧏🏾♀️ 🧏🏿♀️. They all mean the same thing; long-press 🧏♀️ on a phone keyboard to pick one.
- What is the shortcode for 🧏♀️?
- On GitHub, type :deaf_woman: and it turns into 🧏♀️ — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.