What 🧑🦯 means
A full-length portrayal of a gender-neutral person indicating the action of walking by placing one foot in front and the other behind, while one arm holds a cane, that mostly looks like a walking stick.
The 🧑🦯 Person With White Cane emoji can mostly refer to a visually challenged person. However, metaphorically speaking, this emoji can have more than one obvious meaning. It can signify direction, pathway, course, ignorance, oblivion, sensitiveness, journey, etc.
It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If your bestie is telling you about a ridiculous incident or she herself is talking ridiculously, then you can use 🧑🦯 in such conversations to indicate that you're still trying to find some direction in what just happened.
- If someone or something helps you through life or gives you a sense of direction, and you're sharing an appreciation post or a birthday post for the same, you can use 🧑🦯 in the captions. For example, "Thanks to Guns and Roses, I find the motivation to get out of bed each day 🧑🦯".
- Use 🧑🦯 in a context of expressing confusion or dilemma. Like, a sense of being spoilt for choice, an indecisive situation, etc. For example, "I just can't make up my mind. Red hair or green hair 🧑🦯".
- If you're posting or tweeting about something that's completely subjective and you don't have much of an idea if the subject is factually true or not, you can use 🧑🦯 in such contexts.
- If you just had a complete hair transformation, or skin treatment or anything done to your physique and you're sending the before and after pictures to someone, you can use 🧑🦯 while asking them to spot the difference, or if they see anything different or new in you.
Other Names
- 🧑🦯 Walking Stick
- 🧑🦯 Gender-Neutral Person With White Cane
- 🧑🦯 Blind Person
- 🧑🦯 Person With Visual Impairment
- 🧑🦯 Confused
- 🧑🦯 Seeking Direction
- 🧑🦯 Ignorant
- 🧑🦯 Unbothered
- 🧑🦯 Oblivious Person
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-activity
- Codepoints
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.1
- Shortcodes
:person_with_probing_cane:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- accessibility, blind, cane, person, probing, 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.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧑🦯 Person with White Cane or ⛰️ Mountain?