Woman in manual wheelchair facing right Emoji

People

A woman with short hair sitting in a standard manual wheelchair, oriented to face toward the right side of the screen. The design highlights the mobility equipment commonly used by individuals with physical disabilities.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, disability rights, or inclusive travel experiences. It is often shared alongside related symbols like 👨‍🦽 or ♿ to advocate for better infrastructure or to represent personal identity.

History

Part of the effort to broaden representation in digital communication, this emoji was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. It uses a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine the woman emoji with the wheelchair and arrow components, allowing for more diverse gender and movement configurations.

Details

Glyph

👩‍🦽‍➡

Unicode

U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9BD U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_200d_1f9bd_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBD;‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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