Person with white cane: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone walking forward while holding a white cane outstretched to detect obstacles on the ground. The icon features a stylized figure in motion, emphasizing the navigation tool used by those with visual impairments.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, mobility, or the experience of being blind or visually impaired. It is frequently utilized to advocate for inclusive infrastructure or to mark content that has been optimized for screen readers, similar to how 🦮 represents guide dogs.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of an effort to increase inclusive representation in digital communication. The design evolved from earlier, less specific pictograms to accurately reflect the functionality of the long cane used in orientation and mobility training.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🦯

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9AF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f9af:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDAF;

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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