People & Body · Emoji 12.0
👨🦼Man In Motorized Wheelchair Emoji
A man using a motorized wheelchair for mobility. It’s used to talk about a specific man’s power chair, an accessibility issue, or disability in general.
Added in the 2019 accessibility batch to give disabled men real representation in chat.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BC
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :man_
in_ motorized_ wheelchair: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨🦼 Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F468. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji skin tones
👨🦼 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_in_motorized_wheelchair:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man in motorized wheelchair, code point U+1F468.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👨🦼 Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji
No picker to hand? The man in motorized wheelchair can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man in motorized wheelchair as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man in motorized wheelchair for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👨🦼 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 👨🦼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F468, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
👨🦼 vs 💇♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man In Motorized Wheelchair
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BC · added 2019
Shortcode: :man_in_motorized_wheelchair:
A man using a motorized wheelchair for mobility.
Unicode name: Man Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-getting-haircut:
It usually just means someone is getting a haircut or talking about hair.
12 — History
Where the 👨🦼 Man In Motorized Wheelchair emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the man in motorized wheelchair has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BC never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Man In Motorized Wheelchair was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BC and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👨🦼 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ