A man in a manual wheelchair, standing for men who use wheelchairs and for mobility access.
Wheelchair users pick it to represent themselves, and it shows up in adaptive sports like wheelchair rugby and basketball. Posts about step-free access and accessible parking use it too, often with โฟ.
Facts
Man in manual wheelchair ๐จโ๐ฆฝ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐จ man and ๐ฆฝ manual wheelchair. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :man_in_manual_wheelchair:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โmanโ, โmanualโ, or โwheelchairโ.
Made of
๐จ+๐ฆฝ=๐จโ๐ฆฝ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.0