White cane emoji 🦯
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9AF
What 🦯 means
White cane 🦯 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: accessibility, blind, cane, probing, white.
Those words also drive emoji search: try accessibility or blind on your phone to find 🦯.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦯 sits with the tools (28 emoji) inside objects, which has 268 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 white cane into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type white cane.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type white cane in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type white cane.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦯 as one code point, U+1F9AF: 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+1F9AF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦯 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦯 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9AF"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9AF} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%AF | |
| UTF-8 bytes | 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 | white cane |
| Português | bengala para cegos |
| Español | bastón |
| Italiano | bastone per non vedenti |
| Français | canne blanche |
| Deutsch | Blindenstock |
| Türkçe | görme engelli bastonu |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tongkat tunanetra |
| Polski | biała laska |
| Русский | белая трость |
| 日本語 | 白杖 |
| 한국어 | 시각장애인 지팡이 |
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All objects emoji →Questions people ask
What does the white cane emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦯 "white cane" and links it with accessibility, blind, cane, probing. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the tools subgroup of objects.
When was the white cane emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
How do I type the white cane emoji?
To find 🦯 quickly, type white cane into the emoji search.