Man in manual wheelchair facing right: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with light skin tone sitting in a manual wheelchair, positioned to face toward the right. The design highlights the mechanical structure of the chair, including the large rear wheels and the hand rims used for self-propulsion.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, mobility aid awareness, or to identify a person who uses a wheelchair. It is frequently employed in conversations regarding inclusive infrastructure, disability rights, or simply to represent a person moving in a specific direction, often paired with transit-related icons like 🚎 or 🚆.

History

While the basic wheelchair emoji has existed since 2005, the ability to combine skin tones and specific movement directions was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. This update was part of a major push to make emoji representation more inclusive of the diverse ways people move through the world.

Details

Glyph
👨🏻‍🦽‍➡
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F9BD U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f9bd_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
accessibilityfacingmanmanualrightwheelchairmobilitydisabilityinclusiveperson in wheelchairlight skin tone

Microsoft Fluent License

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