🩼Crutch Emoji
The emoji 🩼 is a crutch. It represents a walking aid.
The emoji 🩼 is a crutch.
- Unicode
- U+1FA7C
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :crutch:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🩼 Crutch emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as help emoji.
Crutch emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the crutch as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Crutch emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :crutch:.
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+1FA7C.
How to type the 🩼 Crutch emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FA7C when there is no key at all.
Crutch emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the crutch as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Crutch emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around crutch for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🩼, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
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.
Where the 🩼 Crutch emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, the crutch has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 5.
Same character every time — U+1FA7C 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.
Crutch was approved as U+1FA7C and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.