Man with white cane

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Shortcode
:man_with_probing_cane:
Shortcode
:man_with_white_cane:
Unicode
U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9AF
HTML
👨‍🦯
CSS
\1F468\200D\1F9AF
JavaScript
"\u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F9AF}"
URL
%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%AF

accessibilityblindcanemanprobingwhite

What ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆฏ means

A man using a white cane, standing for blind and low-vision men and visual impairment.

Blind men use it in bios and posts about daily life, travel and work. It also appears in content on cane skills, braille and accessible design. Its meaning is literal: a person who uses a cane to navigate.

Facts

Man with white cane ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆฏ 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 ๐Ÿ‘จ man and ๐Ÿฆฏ white cane. 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_with_probing_cane: or :man_with_white_cane:. People also look for it with words like โ€œaccessibilityโ€, โ€œblindโ€, โ€œcaneโ€, or โ€œmanโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿ‘จ+๐Ÿฆฏ=๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆฏ

Timeline

  1. 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
  2. 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. man with white cane, Google (Noto) design from 20192019
  2. man with white cane, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. man with white cane, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 12.0

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