U+1F9AF "🦯" Probing Cane Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦯
U+1F9AF "🦯" Probing Cane is a pictographic symbol representing a long, white mobility cane used primarily by people who are blind or visually impaired to detect obstacles, changes in terrain, and other physical features in their environment through tactile feedback. Added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0, this character serves both as a practical digital icon in accessibility contexts and as an emoji that can be used to represent independence, navigation, and the broader disability community. Its design typically depicts a slender, straight stick with a curved handle, often shown in white with a red tip, which is the conventional color scheme for such canes in many countries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9AF |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Probing Cane |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🦯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🦯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddaf |