Mechanical arm emoji 🦾
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9BE
What 🦾 means
Mechanical arm 🦾 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: accessibility, arm, mechanical, prosthetic.
Those words also drive emoji search: try accessibility or arm on your phone to find 🦾.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦾 sits with the body parts (18 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 🦿 🦵 🦶 👂.
Will 🦾 show on my friend's phone?
🦾 dates from Emoji 12.0 (2019). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦾
To find 🦾 quickly, type mechanical arm into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type mechanical arm.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type mechanical arm in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type mechanical arm.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦾 as one code point, U+1F9BE: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9BE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦾 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦾 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9BE"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9BE} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%BE | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 BE |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦾 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | mechanical arm |
| Português | braço mecânico |
| Español | brazo mecánico |
| Italiano | protesi robotica per il braccio |
| Français | bras mécanique |
| Deutsch | Armprothese |
| Türkçe | mekanik kol |
| Bahasa Indonesia | lengan robot |
| Polski | mechaniczne ramię |
| Русский | механическая рука |
| 日本語 | 義手 |
| 한국어 | 기계 팔 |
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What does the mechanical arm emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦾 "mechanical arm" and links it with accessibility, arm, mechanical, prosthetic. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the body parts subgroup of people & body.
When was the mechanical arm emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the mechanical arm emoji?
To find 🦾 quickly, type mechanical arm into the emoji search.