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

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBC;

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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