People & Body · Emoji 12.1
🧑🦼Person In Motorized Wheelchair Emoji
A person using a motorized wheelchair for mobility or physical disability. Used to talk about someone’s wheelchair, accessibility, or power assist.
Introduced in 2019 as part of the push to add real disability representation to emoji.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9BC
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :person_
in_ motorized_ wheelchair: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑🦼 Person In Motorized Wheelchair emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Person In Motorized Wheelchair 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 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person 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
Person In Motorized Wheelchair 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_in_motorized_wheelchair:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person in motorized wheelchair, code point U+1F9D1.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧑🦼 Person In Motorized Wheelchair emoji
No picker to hand? The person in motorized wheelchair can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person In Motorized Wheelchair emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person 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
Person In Motorized Wheelchair emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person 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
Who sent the person in motorized wheelchair and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🧑🦼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9D1, 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: Person In Motorized Wheelchair
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9BC · added 2019
Shortcode: :person_in_motorized_wheelchair:
A person using a motorized wheelchair for mobility or physical disability.
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 In Motorized Wheelchair emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.1, the person in motorized wheelchair has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 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.
Person In Motorized Wheelchair was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9BC and shipped in Emoji 12.1 (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