🧑‍🦯‍➡️

Person with White Cane: Facing Right Emoji 🧑‍🦯‍➡️

What 🧑‍🦯‍➡️ means

A person walking confidently with a white cane — facing right. The 🧑‍🦯‍➡️ Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji arrived in Emoji 15.1 (September 2023) as part of the big directionality update: 108 of that release's emojis exist so people on our keyboards can finally move in both directions.

It mirrors the classic left-facing version, which matters more than it sounds — point an emoji toward the thing you're describing and a sentence suddenly has motion and intent.

How and when to use it

Great for accessibility advocacy, orientation and mobility, and everyday representation for blind and low-vision people: "First solo commute on the new route 🧑‍🦯‍➡️ nailed it."
Point it at what comes next in your sentence — 🧑‍🦯‍➡️🏁, 🧑‍🦯‍➡️🏠, 🧑‍🦯‍➡️✈️ — direction adds meaning.
Combine with its left-facing twin for meet-in-the-middle moments and race commentary.

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-activity
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 15.1
Shortcodes: :person_with_white_cane_facing_right: Slack · Discord
Keywords: accessibility, blind, cane, facing, person, probing, right, white
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.