🩼
What 🩼 means
A single medical crutch shown with a metallic or steel body and light brown detailing mainly in the sponge rubber padding area at the top and the other junctures below it - which may be wooden and not spongy.
Based on the use of a crutch, the 🩼 Crutch emoji too, represents support and assistance, mostly in situations of permanent or temporary physical disability. It could signify altruism and a sense of being that crutch for someone in need as well.
How and when to use it
- The biggest and the best thing about a crutch is its reliability. If this wonderful trait is what you're after, then this emoji has your back.
- One uses a crutch to help them get somewhere. So, if you're paying a tribute, big or small, to someone or something who was always there for you when you were down, this emoji would be a quirky addition.
- You can apply this emoji while comforting someone and offering help too. For example, "You have nothing to worry about, kay? I'm here for you, mate! I'm your damn crutch! 🩼".
- If something other than a person, is disabled in some way, you can use this emoji not to highlight that disability, not in a crass manner but to merely show that the subject requires extra care and time.
- However, as much as a crutch symbolizes support and selflessness, it could be representative of dependence, with a positive or negative connotation as well. Which makes this emoji a rather tricky one to use. Hence, make thy words clearer.
Other Names
- 🩼 Crutch
- 🩼 Walking Stick
- 🩼 Walking Cane
- 🩼 Disability
- 🩼 Mobility Aid/Device
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › medical
- Codepoints
U+1FA7C- Emoji version
- Emoji 14.0
- Shortcodes
:crutch:- Keywords
- aid, cane, crutch, disability, help, hurt, injured, mobility, stick
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🩼 Crutch or 🐎 Horse?