Woman in manual wheelchair: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium skin tone seated in a standard manual wheelchair. The design depicts the user facing toward the left, with the chair’s wheels and frame clearly visible.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to represent mobility, accessibility, and disability advocacy. It serves as a visual shorthand for someone navigating the world in a wheelchair, often used to signal that a location is wheelchair-friendly or to discuss disability rights. It is frequently grouped with 👩🦼 or ♿ to denote accessible infrastructure.
History
Part of a major effort by the Unicode Consortium to improve representation in digital communication, this character was introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. It was part of a larger update designed to provide more diverse options for people with disabilities, following requests from advocacy groups for better inclusion in global messaging standards.
Details
Glyph
👩🏽🦽
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F9BD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f9bd:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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