Person with white cane emoji 🧑🦯
Emoji 12.1 (2019) · U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧑🦯 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Person with white cane 🧑🦯 is tagged with these keywords: accessibility, blind, cane, person, probing, white.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing accessibility or blind in the emoji search brings up 🧑🦯.
Person with white cane 🧑🦯 is one of 58 emoji in the people doing things subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🧑🦯➡️ 👨🦯 👨🦯➡️ 👩🦯.
🧑🦯 comes in 5 skin tones, from 🧑🏻🦯 to 🧑🏿🦯, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🧑🦯 show on my friend's phone?
🧑🦯 was added in Emoji 12.1 (2019). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
What 🧑🦯 is made of
Technically 🧑🦯 is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🧑 person + 🦯 white cane. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🧑🦯
Any emoji picker finds 🧑🦯 when you search for person with white cane.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person with white cane.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person with white cane in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person with white cane.
Codes for developers
Person with white cane 🧑🦯 is written with 3 code points: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF. In UTF-8 it takes 11 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 5.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧑‍🦯 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧑‍🦯 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9D1 \200D \1F9AF"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1}\u200D\u{1F9AF} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%AF | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F A6 AF |
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 | person with white cane |
| Português | pessoa com bengala para cego |
| Español | persona con bastón |
| Italiano | persona con bastone di orientamento |
| Français | personne avec une canne blanche |
| Deutsch | Person mit Langstock |
| Türkçe | görme engelli bastonlu kişi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang dengan tongkat |
| Polski | osoba z białą laską |
| Русский | человек с белой тростью |
| 日本語 | 杖をついた人 |
| 한국어 | 지팡이를 든 사람 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person with white cane emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧑🦯 "person with white cane" and links it with accessibility, blind, cane, person. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people doing things subgroup of people & body.
When was the person with white cane emoji added?
In Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧑🦯?
Yes. 🧑🦯 has these skin tones: 🧑🏻🦯 🧑🏼🦯 🧑🏽🦯 🧑🏾🦯 🧑🏿🦯. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.