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:person_with_probing_cane::person_with_white_cane:U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF🧑‍🦯\1F9D1\200D\1F9AF"\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9AF}"%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%AFA person walking with a white cane, the long cane many blind and low-vision people use to find their way. It stands for blindness, visual impairment and accessibility.
Blind and low-vision people use it to represent themselves, and it appears in posts about accessibility, mobility training and disability awareness. Pair with ๐ฆฎ for a guide dog.
Some use it as a joke for โI can't seeโ or for searching hard. Many blind users find that careless.
Person with white cane ๐งโ๐ฆฏ 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 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 :person_with_probing_cane: or :person_with_white_cane:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โblindโ, โcaneโ, or โpersonโ.
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2020Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.