Man in motorized wheelchair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin depicted sitting in an electric, motorized wheelchair. The image shows a side-profile view of the chair, highlighting the battery-powered mobility device used for personal transport.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, advocate for disability rights, or simply represent someone using a power chair for navigation. It is frequently paired with ♿ to mark inclusive spaces or with 🏃 to contrast different modes of movement.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019 as part of a significant expansion of inclusive human representations. It followed long-standing user advocacy efforts to provide more accurate depictions of mobility aids in digital communication, moving beyond the static manual wheelchair icon.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🦼

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9BC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f9bc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBC;

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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