Person In Motorized Wheelchair 🧑‍🦼
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The person in motorized wheelchair emoji, depicting a person seated in an electric (motorized) wheelchair. This emoji is used to represent motorized wheelchair users, electric mobility devices, and disability mobility support. Common usage includes 'Going out in my power chair🧑‍🦼' 'Convenience of motorized chairs🧑‍🦼' or 'Accessible tourism🧑‍🦼' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019, it specifically represents users of motorized wheelchairs as distinct from manual wheelchair users.

Motorized wheelchairs are mobility aids for people who lack sufficient upper body strength to propel manual wheelchairs, or those needing extended travel. Battery technology improvements have made these chairs more compact and longer-ranged in recent years. The emoji is used in posts about accessibility, disability independence, universal design, and freedom of mobility. It also appears in discussions of barrier-free urban planning, accessible tourist destinations, and adaptive sports like powerchair football.