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 ๐จโ๐ฆฏ 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 ๐ฆฏ 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 โaccessibilityโ, โblindโ, โcaneโ, or โmanโ.
Made of
๐จ+๐ฆฏ=๐จโ๐ฆฏ
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