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 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

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