People & Body · Emoji 12.1
🧑🦽Person In Manual Wheelchair Emoji
A person using a manual wheelchair, self-propelled by pushing the wheels. It’s used to talk about mobility, disability, or someone’s specific wheelchair.
One of the original 2019 accessibility emoji, showing a gender-neutral person in a standard push wheelchair rather than an electric one.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9BD
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :person_
in_ manual_ wheelchair: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑🦽 Person 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
Person In Manual 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 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
Person In Manual 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_manual_wheelchair:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9D1.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧑🦽 Person In Manual Wheelchair emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Person 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
Person In Manual Wheelchair emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person 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
One code point, several readings — where the person in manual wheelchair 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 In Manual Wheelchair
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9BD · added 2019
Shortcode: :person_in_manual_wheelchair:
A person using a manual wheelchair, self-propelled by pushing the wheels.
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 Manual Wheelchair emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.1, the person in manual wheelchair has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 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.
Person In Manual Wheelchair was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9BD 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