White cane
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- Shortcode
:probing_cane:- Shortcode
:white_cane:- Unicode
U+1F9AF- HTML
🦯- CSS
\1F9AF- JavaScript
"\u{1F9AF}"- URL
%F0%9F%A6%AF
What ๐ฆฏ means
A white cane, the long probing cane used by people who are blind or have low vision. It stands for blindness, visual impairment and accessibility.
Used in posts about accessibility, disability awareness and navigating the world without sight. For a person holding the cane, ๐งโ๐ฆฏ and its gendered forms are the better choice.
Facts
White cane ๐ฆฏ is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. 6 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :probing_cane: or :white_cane:. People also look for it with words like โaccessibilityโ, โblindโ, โcaneโ, or โprobingโ.
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
- 20192 new emoji built from it (Emoji 12.0)๐จโ๐ฆฏ๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ
- 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)๐งโ๐ฆฏ
- 20233 new emoji built from it (Emoji 15.1)๐งโ๐ฆฏโโก๏ธ๐จโ๐ฆฏโโก๏ธ๐ฉโ๐ฆฏโโก๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.