U+1F9BD "🦽" Manual Wheelchair Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦽
U+1F9BD "🦽" Manual Wheelchair is a symbol representing a self-propelled wheelchair, typically depicted as a side view of a chair with large hand rims on the main wheels. Part of the Emoji 12.0 release in 2019, it was introduced to provide a more accurate and inclusive representation of mobility aids, distinguishing between manual and powered wheelchairs. This character is often used in digital communication to discuss accessibility, physical disability, and assistive technology, helping to foster greater visibility and representation for wheelchair users in text and online conversations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9BD |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Manual Wheelchair |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddbd |