Man in motorized wheelchair: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with a medium-light skin tone seated in a modern, motorized electric wheelchair. The design highlights the mobility aid's control joystick and sturdy frame, reflecting common power-chair configurations.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, disability advocacy, and daily movement. It serves as a direct way to represent personal identity or to indicate that a specific location or event is wheelchair-accessible. It is frequently used alongside ♿ or 👨🏼🦽 to talk about inclusive infrastructure and modern assistive technology.
History
This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a significant push to increase representation of people with disabilities. Its inclusion followed a coordinated effort to ensure that digital communication better reflected the diversity of human mobility aids, moving beyond the static manual wheelchair icon that had been the standard for decades.
Details
Glyph
👨🏼🦼
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9BC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f9bc:
HTML Entity
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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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