Person in manual wheelchair: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone sitting in a manual wheelchair. The figure is depicted in profile, shown mid-movement, emphasizing the user-operated nature of the chair.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, mobility, and inclusive design in public spaces. It serves as a direct way to identify someone who uses a wheelchair for daily navigation, often appearing in conversations about infrastructure, event planning, or disability rights. It is frequently grouped with related icons like 🧑‍🦼 or ♿ to signify accessible facilities.

History

The manual wheelchair emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a significant push by the Unicode Consortium to improve representation of people with disabilities. Its inclusion aimed to standardize how mobility aids are depicted across global platforms, moving beyond generic signage to provide more granular, human-centric options.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🦽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9BD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f9bd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBD;

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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