Person with white cane: facing right

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Shortcode
:person_with_white_cane_facing_right:
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
HTML
🧑‍🦯‍➡️
CSS
\1F9D1\200D\1F9AF\200D\27A1\FE0F
JavaScript
"\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9AF}\u{200D}\u{27A1}\u{FE0F}"
URL
%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%AF%E2%80%8D%E2%9E%A1%EF%B8%8F

accessibilityblindcanefacingpersonprobingrightwhite

What ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฏโ€โžก๏ธ means

A person with a white cane walking to the right, a mirrored form of ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฏ for blindness and low vision.

It lets the figure face forward in left-to-right text, so it suits sequences about getting somewhere: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฏโ€โžก๏ธ๐Ÿš‰ for a trip to the station. Disability advocates use it to show blind people out and about, moving through the world.

Older systems show it as ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฏ followed by a โžก๏ธ.

Facts

Person with white cane: facing right ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฏโ€โžก๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 15.1, released in 2023. It is a sequence that joins ๐Ÿง‘ person, ๐Ÿฆฏ white cane, and โžก๏ธ right arrow. 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_with_white_cane_facing_right:. People also look for it with words like โ€œaccessibilityโ€, โ€œblindโ€, โ€œcaneโ€, or โ€œfacingโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿง‘+๐Ÿฆฏ+โžก๏ธ=๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฏโ€โžก๏ธ

Timeline

  1. 2023Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 15.1)
  2. 2023Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 15.1)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. person with white cane: facing right, Google (Noto) design from 20232023

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. person with white cane: facing right, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20242024

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

people & body ยท Emoji 15.1

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