🦯

White Cane Emoji 🦯

This is the long cane many blind and low-vision people use to navigate, one of a set of accessibility emoji Unicode approved in 2019. Its official character name is "probing cane," though "white cane" is the term in everyday use. It's typed to represent blindness and low vision directly, not as a metaphor for anything else.

What 🦯 means

A right tilted metallic cane with a tiny round structure at the bottom, a thread at the top handle, and designed with a tri-colored body.

The 🦯 White Cane emoji is similar to the one held by this 🧑‍🦯 Person. Apart from signifying guidance, navigation, and movement, this emoji could also refer to a whip, lash, etc. Hence, this emoji could either symbolize walking and maneuvering or whacking something.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a picture or video, the caption for which is about a lash or the act of lashing, you may use 🦯. For example, "What can I say. I tend to lash out that way 🦯".
Since 🦯 would also represent a whip, it can be used in the literal sense of being whacked (or, you know, enjoyably whacked) or in the metaphorical context of beating someone at something. For instance, "How'd you like that final whip of a goal! 🦯".
You can also use 🦯 in the caption if the post is about guidance in any manner; a career guidance post, a spiritual guidance repost, or even a video of an act of kindness.
A white cane is generally used by a blind person to navigate their way. So, you may use 🦯 in the literal context of physical blindness or even figuratively, as in moving or going past obstacles.
Examples for the previous use-case: "This woman of strength may be blind, but she can always kick your ass! 🦯" or "Obstacles exist only to make you smarter🦯".

Other Names

🦯 Cane
🦯 Whip
🦯 Lash
🦯 Probing Cane
🦯 Walking Stick
🦯 Stick
🦯 Long Cane
🦯 Walking Cane

The lowdown

Category: Objects › tool
Codepoints: U+1F9AF
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :probing_cane:
Keywords: accessibility, blind, cane, probing, white

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.