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🩼Crutch Emoji
🩼 is the crutch emoji, U+1FA7C, one of 7 in the Medical set. It arrived with Emoji 14.0 (2021) and is commonly used for aid, cane and disability.
What 🩼 crutch means
Health updates, appointments and injuries. 💉 covers vaccinations, blood tests and needle fear, and Apple redrew it without blood droplets in iOS 14.2 in 2020 so it would suit vaccine posts. The drop of blood 🩸 was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019 after public campaigning for a period emoji. 🩹 is often figurative, marking a temporary fix.
Unicode tags this one aid, cane and disability and files it under Objects → Medical.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FA7C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🩼 | |
| HTML decimal | 🩼 | |
| CSS | \1FA7C | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA7C} | |
| Python | \U0001FA7C | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDE7C | |
| Rust | \u{1fa7c} | |
| Swift | \u{1FA7C} | |
| PHP | \u{1FA7C} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A9%BC | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A9 BC | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DE7C | |
| Base64 | 8J+pvA== | |
| Decimal | 129660 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Keywords
- aid
- cane
- disability
- help
- hurt
- injured
- mobility
- stick
Appears in these collections
How to type 🩼
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “crutch”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “aid”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fa7cand Enter. - HTML — paste
🩼.
How 🩼 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🩼Apple
- 🩼Segoe
- 🩼Noto
- 🩼System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🩼 crutch emoji mean?+
🩼 is the crutch emoji, tagged aid, cane and disability. Health updates, appointments and injuries. 💉 covers vaccinations, blood tests and needle fear, and Apple redrew it without blood droplets in iOS 14.2 in 2020 so it would suit vaccine posts. The drop of blood 🩸 was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019 after public campaigning for a period emoji. 🩹 is often figurative, marking a temporary fix.
What is the Unicode code for 🩼?+
crutch is U+1FA7C. In HTML that is 🩼, in CSS \1FA7C, and in JavaScript \u{1FA7C}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🩼 emoji added?+
crutch got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Medical in Objects.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🩼 crutch.