A person in a powered wheelchair, the kind steered with a joystick. It stands for wheelchair users, mobility disability and accessibility.
Power-chair users use it to represent themselves and their daily life. It appears in posts about ramps, accessible travel and disability rights, and next to โฟ, the general accessibility symbol.
๐งโ๐ฆฝ is the manual wheelchair; this one has a motor.
Facts
Person in motorized wheelchair ๐งโ๐ฆผ 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 ๐ฆผ motorized 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_motorized_wheelchair:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โmotorizedโ, โpersonโ, or โwheelchairโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐ฆผ=๐งโ๐ฆผ
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