Person in manual wheelchair: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with light skin tone sitting in a manual, self-propelled wheelchair. The design features a neutral-looking figure with their hands resting on the wheels, depicting a standard piece of mobility equipment.

Usage Context

Used to discuss accessibility, transportation, or the daily experiences of wheelchair users. It is frequently paired with the ♿ wheelchair symbol to identify accessible locations or parking spaces. It acts as a primary way to represent mobility aids in digital conversations.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0. Its inclusion followed a push from organizations like Apple and the disability advocacy community to improve representation of assistive technologies and people with disabilities within the global emoji library.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🦽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F9BD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f9bd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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