Man With White Cane 👨‍🦯
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The man with white cane emoji, depicting a man with shorter hair walking with a white cane (long cane), the international symbol for blind and visually impaired people. This emoji specifically represents visually impaired men. Common usage includes 'Supporting blind men👨‍🦯' 'My visually impaired father👨‍🦯' or 'Accessible society👨‍🦯' Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019, this emoji was created to address the lack of disability representation in emoji. The white cane has been used as a navigation tool and identification symbol for blind people globally for nearly a century.

October 15 is celebrated as World White Cane Day, recognizing the rights, independence, and capabilities of blind and visually impaired people. The emoji is used in posts about male visual impairment, accessibility, universal design, and inclusive society. It also appears in discussions of tactile paving, audio guidance systems, guide helpers, and blind sports. Skin tone modifiers can be applied to represent men of different ethnicities.