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

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

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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