👨‍🦽

Man in Manual Wheelchair Emoji 👨‍🦽

What 👨‍🦽 means

A full-length side profile of a man sitting in a manual wheelchair, while he's holding both wheels by his hands and placing his feet on the footrest in front.

The 👨‍🦽 Man in Manual Wheelchair emoji signifies physical disability, dependency on the equipment for locomotion, helplessness, and vulnerability. It can also suggest a sense of physical assistance, temporary or not.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting an inspiring picture, video or tweet about a man in a wheelchair, you can use 👨‍🦽 in the captions or within the tweet. It can be a really sweet post that can make someone's day or even a post from the Paralympics.
If you're a wheelchair user, you can use 👨‍🦽 in your social media profile name if you like to own and be identified by your physique.
If you need temporary wheelchair assistance, you can post about what happened and the picture of you in a wheelchair with the 👨‍🦽 emoji in the caption. If you like to hush things down, especially health-related stuff, then ignore this point.
You can also use 👨‍🦽 as a way of casually and playfully saying that you're getting out of a conversation or situation. Like, "One, two, three, and I'm freeee 👨‍🦽. Goodbye buds." This emoji can be paired with the 💨 Dashing Away emoji to add the effect of speed to this emoji, like 👨‍🦽💨.
👨‍🦽 can also be used in the context of being hospitalized. So, the next time you post a story or tweet about landing up in the hospital because of something stupid you did, use this emoji.

Other Names

👨‍🦽 Man on a Wheelchair
👨‍🦽 Manual Wheelchair
👨‍🦽 Wheelchair User
👨‍🦽 Physically Disabled
👨‍🦽 Man With Physical Disability
👨‍🦽 Temporary Wheelchair User
👨‍🦽 Wheelchair Friendly

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-activity
Codepoints: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BD
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :man_in_manual_wheelchair: Slack · Discord
Keywords: accessibility, man, manual, wheelchair
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

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.