Ear: medium skin tone

Attentive listening — "go on, I'm all ears." Sent alone as a reply, the all ears emoji tells the other person you are waiting for the rest; it is the texting version of leaning in. It fits confessions, storytime and "you'll never guess what happened" openers, and it accuses nobody: sending it says you are listening, not that you have been listening in.

The literal reading is there when context supports it. An earache, a new piercing, a doctor's visit or "listen to this" beside a song link cue the plain body-part sense; the surrounding words point to the likely reading rather than guarantee it. For hearing loss, 🦻, the ear with a hearing aid, says it far more clearly, since plain 👂 tends to read as ordinary listening.