[Tex/LaTex] Ear symbol in LaTeX

Question

I am looking for an ear symbol, much like the \eye in dingbats?
Something like

would be perfect.

I want to include it into a text like I did with the eye symbol, using it instead of the "hear":

I could use a normal image and scale it, but it would be easier to use a symbol.

Answer 1

If you are able to use Xe- or LuaLaTeX, you may use the unicode U+1F442 by copy pasting it in your source code or like in my following MWE:

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\begin{document}
    \setmainfont{quivira.otf}
    \symbol{"1F442}
    \setmainfont{symbola.ttf}
    \symbol{"1F442}
\end{document}

When you have found your symbol, you may define a macro as

\newcommand*{\ear}{{\fontspec{the_font}\symbol{"1F442}}}

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For PDFLaTeX, you will have to search for other LaTeX-symbols in the common way. But I was not lucky here. If you try to add an image, you may look on posts like this.

If my solution works for you, you may possibly want to redefine the eye symbol as well in order to visually fit. This would look like the following:

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newcommand*{\ear}{{\fontspec{symbola.ttf}\symbol{"1F442}}}
\newcommand*{\eye}{{\fontspec{symbola.ttf}\symbol{"1F441}}}

\begin{document}
    \section{Do}
    \eye \hspace{1cm} do

    \noindent\ear
\end{document}