Woman with white cane facing right: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin holding a white cane while moving to the right. The white cane serves as a mobility tool for people who are blind or have low vision to detect obstacles and navigate their surroundings safely.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, disability awareness, or to signal mobility assistance. It is often used alongside the ♿ wheelchair symbol or the 🦯 probing cane emoji to represent inclusive navigation and support for the visually impaired.

History

Introduced in Unicode 13.0 in 2020, this icon was part of a larger push to include more diverse and inclusive representations of people with disabilities in digital communication. The white cane itself has been the global standard for mobility and navigation for the blind since the early 20th century.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🦯‍➡

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f9af_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDAF;‍➡

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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