Man in manual wheelchair facing right: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with light skin tone sitting in a manual wheelchair, positioned to face toward the right. The design highlights the mechanical structure of the chair, including the large rear wheels and the hand rims used for self-propulsion.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, mobility aid awareness, or to identify a person who uses a wheelchair. It is frequently employed in conversations regarding inclusive infrastructure, disability rights, or simply to represent a person moving in a specific direction, often paired with transit-related icons like 🚎 or 🚆.
History
While the basic wheelchair emoji has existed since 2005, the ability to combine skin tones and specific movement directions was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. This update was part of a major push to make emoji representation more inclusive of the diverse ways people move through the world.
Details
Glyph
👨🏻🦽➡
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F9BD U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f9bd_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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