The "ear" emoji �� depicts a human ear. It's typically used to represent the act of listening or hearing. It can also convey a desire to pay attention or to inquire about gossip or secrets.

�� Meaning: One single human ear, available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms. This emoji indicates listening, hearing, lending a listening ear, paying attention, staying vigilant, being alert, etc. It also evokes a sense of comfort, trust, and loyalty.

This emoji shows the part of the human body responsible for hearing called the ear. This is the default yellow skin color. �� Ear is a fully-qualified emoji as part of Unicode 6.0 which was introduced in 2010, and was added to Emoji 0.6.