Woman with white cane: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-light skin holding a long, white mobility cane. The icon depicts a person walking with a tool designed to help navigate surroundings by detecting obstacles through tactile feedback.

Usage Context

This emoji serves as a clear visual indicator for accessibility, blindness, or visual impairment. It is frequently used to discuss disability rights, promote inclusive design, or share personal experiences related to mobility. It functions as a partner to the man with white cane: medium-light skin tone or the generic person with white cane to represent a specific identity.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019, this emoji was part of a larger push by the Unicode Consortium to increase the diversity and inclusivity of human-based icons, specifically ensuring that individuals with physical disabilities were accurately represented in modern digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🦯

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9AF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f9af:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDAF;

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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