People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Person With White Cane Facing Right Emoji
Shows someone walking with a white cane, the symbol for blindness or low vision. Used to talk about accessibility or a specific person’s daily life.
It’s the mirrored version of the white cane emoji, added so two walking figures can face each other in a row.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :person_
with_ white_ cane_ facing_ right: - Skin tones
- Yes
Added in Emoji 15.1. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑🦯➡️ Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9D1. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 4.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person With White Cane Facing Right 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
Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :person_with_white_cane_facing_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person with white cane facing right, code point U+1F9D1.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧑🦯➡️ Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji
No picker to hand? The person with white cane facing right can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person with white cane facing right as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 4 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
07 — Combinations
Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person with white cane facing right 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
Who sent the person with white cane facing right and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🧑🦯➡️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the person with white cane facing right lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🧑🦯➡️ vs 💇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person With White Cane Facing Right
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :person_with_white_cane_facing_right:
Shows someone walking with a white cane, the symbol for blindness or low vision.
Unicode name: Person Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 · added 2010
Shortcode: :haircut:
It usually just means someone is talking about getting their hair cut or is interested in hair/beauty.
12 — History
Where the 🧑🦯➡️ Person With White Cane Facing Right emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F 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.
Person With White Cane Facing Right was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 15.1 (2023). 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, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ