🧏

Text style	Emoji style
🧏︎	🧏️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🧏 U+1F9CF, 🧏 DEAF PERSON ← 🧎 [U+1F9CE] Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs 🧐 → [U+1F9D0]

Translingual

Description

A person signing "DEAF" in American Sign Language; see 1@Jaw 1@Chin.

Etymology

(mewing): From its resemblance to the act of mewing. Attested as early as at least 10 December 2023 (see quotations), but popularised in late January and February 2024 alongside the looksmaxxing Internet meme.

Symbol

🧏

1. An emoji indicating a deaf person.
2. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (Internet slang, sometimes humorous) An emoji depicting mewing in the context of looksmaxxing.
   • 2023 December 10, @cris_546__, Twitter‎^[1] (in Spanish):

     🧏, creo que estoy haciendo mewing

     🧏 , I think I'm mewing