🦻Ear with Hearing Aid Emoji
Generally, the 🦻 emoji means "I’m here to help you listen. " It’s often used to offer support or show understanding related to hearing difficulties.
The 🦻 emoji represents a hearing aid.
- Unicode
- U+1F9BB
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :ear_with_hearing_aid:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as hard emoji.
Ear with Hearing Aid emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9BB — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your ear with hearing aid 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 with Hearing Aid emoji skin tones
🦻 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Ear with Hearing Aid emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ear_with_hearing_aid:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ear with hearing aid, code point U+1F9BB.
How to type the 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9BB when there is no key at all.
Ear with Hearing Aid emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ear with hearing aid 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 with Hearing Aid emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ear with hearing aid 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🦻 means in other countries
A specific, respectful representation of a hearing aid, read as accessibility identity rather than slang.
represents hard-of-hearing identity or hearing aid use, meant as genuine representation
rarely used outside its literal meaning, so there’s little room for misreading
Before you send it: Use it as intended, for accessibility or hearing-related context; no need to second-guess it.
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 with Hearing Aid
Code: U+1F9BB · added 2019
Shortcode: :ear_with_hearing_aid:
Generally, the 🦻 emoji means "I’m here to help you listen.
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.
Where the 🦻 Ear with Hearing Aid emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the ear with hearing aid has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9BB 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.
Ear with Hearing Aid was approved as U+1F9BB and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.