Ear with Hearing Aid: Medium Skin Tone
🦻🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
See the default 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid emoji and all skin tones
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
- ear with hearing aid: medium skin tone
- Codepoint
- U+1F9BB U+1F3FD
- Hex
- 1F9BB 1F3FD
- Emoji version
- 12.0
- Unicode version
- 12.0
- First released
- 2019
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- body-parts
- Skin tone
- medium
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRaccessibility · aid · ear · hard · hearing · medium skin tone
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🦻🏽 ear with hearing aid: medium skin tone emoji mean?
- 🦻🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🦻🏽?
- U+1F9BB U+1F3FD.
- When was the 🦻🏽 ear with hearing aid: medium skin tone 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 “ear with hearing aid”. 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.