Person With White Cane 🧑🦯
Copy & Meaning
PERSON WITH WHITE CANE
Person With White Cane 🧑🦯 Emoji Data
| Emoji | 🧑🦯 |
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| Main Meaning | Person With White Cane |
| Unicode | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9AF
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| Unicode Name | PERSON WITH WHITE CANE |
Person With White Cane 🧑🦯 Emoji: Meaning & Usage
The person with white cane emoji, depicting a figure walking with a white cane (long cane), the international symbol for blind and visually impaired people. This emoji is used to represent visual impairment, accessibility, and universal design. Common usage includes 'Supporting blind community🧑🦯' 'For an accessible society🧑🦯' or 'Independence with white cane🧑🦯' This is the gender-neutral version. It was added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019.
White canes have been used as a navigation tool and identification symbol for blind people globally. October 15 is observed as World White Cane Day, celebrating the rights and independence of blind and visually impaired people. The emoji is used in posts about accessibility, disability rights, universal design, inclusive society, and diversity. It's commonly seen in articles introducing visually impaired individuals, blind sports (like blind marathons), discussions of guide helpers, and posts about accessibility infrastructure such as tactile paving and audio guides at stations.