Man in motorized wheelchair facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-light skin seated in a modern, motorized wheelchair, shown in profile facing toward the right. The design highlights the mechanical nature of the chair's backrest and control interface.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, mobility, and inclusive technology. It serves as a direct way to identify someone using a power chair in a digital conversation, often appearing alongside other inclusive icons like 👨‍🦽 or ♿.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of a significant update to Unicode’s accessibility set. These characters were developed following a proposal by Apple to expand the range of disability-related icons, reflecting a growing push for better representation of assistive technology in modern communication platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🦼‍➡

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9BC U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f9bc_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBC;‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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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