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wheelchair

chair with wheels, used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability
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Summary

wheelchair ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,652 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Manufacturer: Numotion (United States)[2], Pride Mobility Products (United States)[3]
  • Subclass of: chair[4], mobility aid[5], adaptive equipment[6], wheeled vehicle[7]
  • Has use: motion[8]
  • Commons category: Wheelchairs[9]
  • Unicode character: ♿[10], 🦽[11]
  • Has part(s): wheel[12], accoudoir[13], seat[14], footstool[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Wheelchairs[16]
  • Described at URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/technologie-personnes-a-mobilite-reduite-pmr-comment-le-fauteuil-roulant-a-permis-a-des-millions-de-personnes-de-decouvrir-le-monde[17]
  • Different from: office chair[18], electric wheelchair[19]

Why It Matters

wheelchair has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] wheelchair is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . youthpresspakistan.youthgroupltd.com. youthpresspakistan.youthgroupltd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · TTWIDEE · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Archive of our own tag → Wheelchairs
    Harper's tag → wheelchairs
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