A person in a manual wheelchair, the kind pushed by hand. People use it for wheelchair users and for mobility access in general.
Wheelchair users post it about themselves and their days, and it appears in posts about ramps, elevators and accessible venues. Adaptive athletes in wheelchair basketball and racing use it too.
The motorized version is ๐งโ๐ฆผ; โฟ is the general accessibility sign.
Facts
Person in manual wheelchair ๐งโ๐ฆฝ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person 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 :person_in_manual_wheelchair:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โmanualโ, โpersonโ, or โwheelchairโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ฆฝ=๐งโ๐ฆฝ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1