Woman in manual wheelchair: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman seated in a standard, self-propelled manual wheelchair. The design features a frame with large rear wheels, hand rims, and a seat, representing a person using mobility assistance.

Usage Context

Used to discuss accessibility, disability rights, or the lived experience of wheelchair users. It is frequently paired with other inclusion-focused symbols like ♿ or 👩🏿‍🦯 to signal support for inclusive environments or to identify specific community members in group chats.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a push for greater representation in digital communication. The manual wheelchair icon was adopted to ensure that users could express disability status with specific skin tone modifiers, following years of advocacy from digital accessibility organizations.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍🦽

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F9BD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f9bd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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