🦼

Motorized Wheelchair Emoji 🦼

A control panel and a motor stand in for push rims here, the powered half of the pair that arrived the same year as 🦽 Manual Wheelchair. It gets used just as plainly, for real conversations about powered mobility devices and accessibility rather than for any unrelated joke.

What 🦼 means

The side profile of a wheelchair with a tall, cushioned seat, an armrest (which is on the other side as well), a foot palate in front, pairs of castor wheels at the back and front, and drive wheels in between.

The 🦼 Motorized Wheelchair represents navigational equipment used by those who require full-body medical assistance. It suggests fast and easy movement and advancement in the medical field.

How and when to use it

If you bought a brand new motorized wheelchair for a family member and you're posting their excitement on your social media handle, use 🦼. Like, "Nan loving her new wheelchair🦼 A rockstar as always!"
Essentially, you could use 🦼 while sharing pictures and/or videos of your loved one(s) in a wheelchair making the most beautiful memories while you record these precious moments.
🦼 is a must to have in the caption for wheelchair ad posts.
If you're taking your motorized wheelchair out for a spin or you're attending a special event with your wheel buddy, you could use 🦼 while texting someone close about it or even while sharing social media posts/stories of the same.
🦼 can be used in general contexts to indicate the availability of wheelchairs or that a particular place/venue is wheelchair friendly.

Other Names

🦼 Powered Wheelchair
🦼 Medical Assistance
🦼 Easy Movement
🦼 Speedy Wheelchair
🦼 Tech-Advanced Wheelchair
🦼 Motor Wheelchair
🦼 Motorized Maneuvring

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F9BC
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :motorized_wheelchair:
Keywords: accessibility, motorized, 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.