U+1F9CF U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
🧏🏼♂️ Deaf man: medium-light skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- People Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 12.0 (2019)
- Emoji version
- 12.0 (2019)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What 🧏🏼♂️ is made of
This symbol is glued together from several: an invisible joiner sits between them. Software that does not know about the joiner shows the parts separately.
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🧏
deaf person
U+1F9CF -
🏼
skin tone
U+1F3FC -
⛓
invisible joiner
U+200D -
♂
male sign
U+2642 -
️
«draw as a picture» marker
U+FE0F
Hence the familiar surprise: you send one picture and the other side gets several in a row, and deleting removes the symbol piece by piece. That is not a fault but how the standard itself works.
Will your readers see 🧏🏼♂️
The symbol belongs to the Emoji 12.0 set, and all four platforms have caught up with it. Below is the exact release for each.
- Apple since October 28, 2019 iOS 13.2
- Google since September 3, 2019 Android 10.0
- Microsoft since May 21, 2019 Windows 10 May 2019 Update
- Samsung since August 21, 2020 One UI 2.5
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🧏🏼♂️ emoji is used
The 🧏🏼♂️ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how deaf man: medium-light skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🧏🏼♂️ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Skin tone · Gender
- 🧏 deaf person
- 🧏🏻 deaf person: light skin tone
- 🧏🏼 deaf person: medium-light skin tone
- 🧏🏽 deaf person: medium skin tone
- 🧏🏾 deaf person: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧏🏿 deaf person: dark skin tone
- 🧏♂️ deaf man
- 🧏🏻♂️ deaf man: light skin tone
- 🧏🏼♂️ deaf man: medium-light skin tone
- 🧏🏽♂️ deaf man: medium skin tone
- 🧏🏾♂️ deaf man: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧏🏿♂️ deaf man: dark skin tone
- 🧏♀️ deaf woman
- 🧏🏻♀️ deaf woman: light skin tone
- 🧏🏼♀️ deaf woman: medium-light skin tone
- 🧏🏽♀️ deaf woman: medium skin tone
- 🧏🏾♀️ deaf woman: medium-dark skin tone
- 🧏🏿♀️ deaf woman: dark skin tone
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | deaf man: medium-light skin tone |
|---|---|
| Русский | глухой мужчина: светлый тон кожи |
| Deutsch | gehörloser Mann: mittelhelle Hautfarbe |
| Español | hombre sordo: tono de piel claro medio |
| Français | homme sourd : peau moyennement claire |
| Polski | głuchy mężczyzna: karnacja średnio jasna |
| Dansk | døv mand: medium til lys teint |
| Українська | чоловік із порушенням слуху: помірно світлий тон шкіри |
| Português | homem surdo: pele morena clara |
Unicode CLDR 48