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🦯White Cane Emoji
Tagged accessibility, blind and cane, 🦯 white cane sits in Unicode's Tools group inside Objects. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0 (2019) at U+1F9AF.
What 🦯 white cane means
Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
Unicode tags this one accessibility, blind and cane and files it under Objects → Tools.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9AF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦯 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦯 | |
| CSS | \1F9AF | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9AF} | |
| Python | \U0001F9AF | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDAF | |
| Rust | \u{1f9af} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9AF} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9AF} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%AF | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 AF | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDAF | |
| Base64 | 8J+mrw== | |
| Decimal | 129455 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Keywords
- accessibility
- blind
- cane
- probing
- white
Appears in these collections
How to type 🦯
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “white cane”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “accessibility”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9afand 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 🦯 white cane emoji mean?+
🦯 is the white cane emoji, tagged accessibility, blind and cane. Building, fixing and the general language of effort, plus a few weapons carried over from older icon sets. 🔨 and 🛠️ mark work in progress, ⚙️ stands for systems and settings, and ⚖️ appears in arguments about law and fairness. Emoji 15.1 added the broken chain ⛓️💥 in 2023, formed by joining the existing chains to the collision symbol, and it reads as breaking free.
What is the Unicode code for 🦯?+
white cane is U+1F9AF. In HTML that is 🦯, in CSS \1F9AF, and in JavaScript \u{1F9AF}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦯 emoji added?+
white cane got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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 Tools in Objects.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦯 white cane.