Person in manual wheelchair: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A person with medium-dark skin tone seated in a manual, self-propelled wheelchair. The design shows the user's hands on the handrims, emphasizing the active nature of manual operation.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, mobility, and inclusive design. It serves as a visual identifier for wheelchair-accessible locations or as a way for individuals to represent their own method of movement. It is often used alongside ♿ to mark accessible facilities or 🧑🏾🦯 to discuss broader disability inclusion.
History
Introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, this emoji was part of a major push by the Unicode Consortium to increase representation in the digital space. It followed a proposal from Apple to expand the range of disability-related icons, moving beyond static symbols to more inclusive, human-centric imagery.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏾🦽
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9BD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f9bd:
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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