White Cane Emoji
🦯
What does the White Cane emoji mean?
1
A white mobility cane with a black handle and a red tip, used by people with visual impairments to help them navigate. It’s often mistaken for a support cane, but its primary purpose is orientation and obstacle detection rather than physical support.
2
A white cane with a wrist strap at one end. It’s a mobility aid used by people with low vision or who are blind. For example, you may have seen this device in the emoji with a blind man.
It can be used both literally and figuratively. Send it to suggest someone doesn’t want to notice something, or to comment on their blind faith in an idea.
Apple Name
- 🦯 White Cane
Unicode Name
- 🦯 Probing Cane
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the White Cane emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🦯 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F9AF
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A6%AF |
| Punycode | xn--cu9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A6 AF |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDDAF |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f9af |
| CSS | \01F9AF |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F9AF} |
| Perl | \x{1F9AF} |
| HTML hex | 🦯 |
| HTML dec | 🦯 |