Man with white cane facing right Emoji

People

A man depicted with a white cane held out in front of him, oriented toward the right. The icon identifies a person who uses a cane for navigation and mobility.

Usage Context

Used to discuss accessibility, visual impairment, or navigating physical spaces. It is frequently grouped with the 🦯 white cane emoji or ♿ symbol of access to highlight features for disabled users or to share personal experiences regarding mobility aids.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of an effort to improve representation of disability and assistive devices across digital platforms. It builds on the long-standing tradition of pictographic road signs used in transit systems to designate accessible paths.

Details

Glyph

👨‍🦯‍➡

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f9af_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDAF;‍➡

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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