🦽

Manual Wheelchair Emoji 🦽

Large push-rims on the rear wheels mark this as the manual half of a wheelchair pair added in 2019. It arrived alongside 🦼 Motorized Wheelchair, well after the older ♿ accessibility symbol, and it's used to talk about mobility devices, disability, and accessibility directly, never as a metaphor for anything else.

What 🦽 means

A left-facing wheelchair, characterized by a large wheel, a chair with a cushioned seat, a footrest below, and a smaller wheel beneath it. There's also an armrest next to the wheel.

The 🦽 Manual Wheelchair emoji signifies manual maneuvering of a wheelchair that is used when there's been an incident that renders the lower half of the body irresponsive.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about your upgrade from crutches to a wheelchair, or you're sharing a social media story/post of the same, you can use 🦽 in those contexts.
Use 🦽 while posting or reposting anything related to para-athletics; it can be a news post, an inspirational video, anything.
Along the same lines, you could bring the 🦽 emoji into your social media profile name if you are a para-athlete, or not; but a temporary or permanent wheelchair user.
If you're a wheelchair user, you could use 🦽 to even signify moving away from negativity. For example, "Aight. That's outrageously obnoxious. I'm outta here 🦽💨" (use the appropriate emoji to indicate your emotion).
🦽 does not necessarily refer to a human wheelchair user, it could be an animal wheelchair user too.

Other Names

🦽 Moving Chair
🦽 Chair on Wheels
🦽 Wheelchair
🦽 Medical Assistance
🦽 Chair Used for Medical Assistance
🦽 Paralympics

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F9BD
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :manual_wheelchair:
Keywords: accessibility, manual, wheelchair

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.