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Deaf person

This deaf person emoji features a hearing-impaired person motioning towards their face. They’re actually signing the word “deaf” in American Sign Language by gesturing with their index finger from their ear to their mouth. With a variety of skin tones and genders, this emoji gives users a more diverse representation than ever before!

Keywords: accessibility, deaf, deaf person, ear, hear
Codepoints: 1F9CF
Introduced: March, 2019 in Unicode version 12.0.0 (Emoji version 12.0)
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