nose: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F443 1F3FC
Description
A representation of an ear, typically human, with a medium-light skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > body-parts
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, as it represents a body part. Its emotional context is entirely dependent on the surrounding message or other emojis.
Backstory
The ear emoji (1F443) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010). The medium-light skin tone modifier (1F3FC) was added later with Unicode 8.0 (2015), allowing users to customize the skin tone of human-like emoji to represent diverse skin colors.
Usage Examples
- Referring to the body part: 'My ear is itchy. 👂🏼'
- Indicating listening: 'I'm all ears! 👂🏼'
- Referring to an auditory experience: 'What a beautiful sound! 👂🏼🎶'
- As part of a health-related discussion: 'Need to get my ear checked. 👂🏼'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often used literally to refer to hearing, listening, or a specific body part. Can be combined with other emojis to convey 'listening carefully' or 'all ears'.
East Asian culture:
Similar literal usage. Can also be part of more elaborate emoji combinations to form expressions or phrases.