Man in manual wheelchair: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned man seated in a manual, self-propelled wheelchair. The design shows the person positioned in a standard medical-style chair with large rear wheels designed for manual navigation.

Usage Context

Used to represent disability, mobility assistance, or accessibility in digital communication. It is frequently employed to discuss physical navigation, inclusive urban planning, or to share personal experiences regarding wheelchair usage. It is often used alongside related disability-focused icons like 👨‍🦼 or ♿.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0. Its inclusion followed a widespread push from advocacy groups to increase representation for people with physical disabilities within the standardized emoji character set.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🦽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F9BD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f9bd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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