Symbols · Emoji 0.6
♿️Wheelchair Symbol Emoji
Generally, it means someone is experiencing difficulty with mobility or needs accessible spaces. It’s often a way to express support or understanding for someone’s situation.
The ♿️ emoji is the wheelchair symbol.
- Unicode
- U+267F U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :wheelchair:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ♿️ Wheelchair Symbol emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Wheelchair Symbol emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+267F. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Wheelchair Symbol 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 :wheelchair:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+267F.
04 — How to type
How to type the ♿️ Wheelchair Symbol emoji
No picker to hand? The wheelchair symbol can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Wheelchair Symbol emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Wheelchair Symbol emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around wheelchair symbol 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.
07 — In conversation
What ♿️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — 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.
10 — Difference
♿️ vs 🦽 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Wheelchair Symbol
Code: U+267F U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :wheelchair:
Generally, it means someone is experiencing difficulty with mobility or needs accessible spaces.
Unicode name: Manual Wheelchair
Code: U+1F9BD · added 2019
Shortcode: :manual_wheelchair:
Generally, the 🦽 emoji means someone is using a manual wheelchair or needs assistance with mobility.
11 — History
Where the ♿️ Wheelchair Symbol emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+267F 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
♿️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E69B, KDDI au E47F, SoftBank E20A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Wheelchair Symbol was approved as U+267F U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.
12 — FAQ