People & Body · Emoji 12.0
👨🦽Man In Manual Wheelchair Emoji
A man using a manual wheelchair, propelled by hand rather than a motor. It’s used to talk about a specific man’s mobility, accessibility, or disability.
Introduced in the 2019 accessibility set to represent disabled men in everyday emoji use.
- Unicode
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BD
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :man_
in_ manual_ wheelchair: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👨🦽 Man In Manual Wheelchair emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Man In Manual Wheelchair emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F468 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man in manual wheelchair looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man In Manual 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 Manual Wheelchair emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_in_manual_wheelchair:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F468.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👨🦽 Man In Manual Wheelchair emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F468 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Man In Manual Wheelchair emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man In Manual Wheelchair emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man in manual 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 👨🦽 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
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 Manual Wheelchair
Code: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BD · added 2019
Shortcode: :man_in_manual_wheelchair:
A man using a manual wheelchair, propelled by hand rather than a motor.
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 Manual Wheelchair emoji came from
It arrived with the 12.0 release of the standard, which dates the man in manual wheelchair to 2019.
Same character every time — U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BD 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 Manual Wheelchair was approved as U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9BD 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