Woman with white cane facing right: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-toned skin holding a long white cane, depicted in motion while walking toward the right. The white cane features a distinct horizontal handle and is designed to act as a mobility tool for navigation.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to represent visual impairment, blindness, or the use of assistive technology in daily life. It is frequently employed in discussions about inclusive design, accessibility advocacy, or personal stories regarding navigation and independence. It is often used alongside 🦯 or ♿ to signal support for the disability community.
History
The base woman emoji and the white cane emoji were combined using a Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence in 2019 to better represent the broad spectrum of human mobility. This addition was part of a larger Unicode push to improve representation for people with disabilities across all mobile platforms.
Details
Glyph
👩🏽🦯➡
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f9af_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
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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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