👂Ear Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 👂 emoji in a text, they just want you to listen to what they’re saying. It’s a quick way to signal that they’re sharing something important or interesting to them.
The 👂 emoji is an ear.
- Unicode
- U+1F442
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ear:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👂 Ear emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
People also look for it as listen emoji, hearing emoji.
Ear emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F442 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your ear looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Ear emoji skin tones
👂 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Ear emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :ear:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ear, code point U+1F442.
How to type the 👂 Ear emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Ear emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ear as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Ear emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ear for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👂, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👂 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the ear and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👂 means in other countries
A plain literal body part with no notable cultural or slang divergence in everyday digital use.
references hearing, listening, or an earring/piercing, taken at face value
occasionally used to mean “I’m listening” or “tell me more,” still straightforward
Before you send it: No real risk here; it reads as intended in nearly every context, no need to swap it for anything else.
What 👂 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
👂 vs 🦻 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Ear
Code: U+1F442 · added 2010
Shortcode: :ear:
Generally, when someone sends you the 👂 emoji in a text, they just want you to listen to what they’re saying.
Unicode name: Ear with Hearing Aid
Code: U+1F9BB · added 2019
Shortcode: :ear_with_hearing_aid:
Generally, the 🦻 emoji means "I’m here to help you listen.
Where the 👂 Ear emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F442 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👂 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E692, KDDI au E5A5, SoftBank E41B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ear was approved as U+1F442 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👂 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.