Wheelchair symbol

The international symbol of access, a figure in a wheelchair. It marks accessible places, parking and facilities.

Event pages and venue info use it to say a space is step-free or accessible. Disability advocates use it in posts about access rights.

For a person using a wheelchair, 🧑‍🦽 or 🧑‍🦼 fits better; ♿ is the sign.

Facts

Wheelchair symbol ♿ is an emoji in the symbols category, under transport sign. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :wheelchair: or :wheelchair_symbol:. People also look for it with words like “access”, “handicap”, “symbol”, or “wheelchair”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

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

symbols · Unicode 6.0