Woman in manual wheelchair Emoji

People

A woman seated in a manual wheelchair, depicted from a side-profile view. The design shows a standard mobility chair with large rear wheels, intended to represent a person using a wheelchair for daily navigation.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss accessibility, disability rights, or the lived experiences of women who use mobility aids. It is frequently paired with other inclusion-focused symbols like ♿ or 👩‍🦼 to provide more specific context regarding mobility devices or personal identity.

History

Added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0, this emoji was part of a major push by the Unicode Consortium to increase the diversity and representation of people with disabilities. It reflects a shift in digital communication toward ensuring that hardware and software reflect the varied physical realities of real-world users.

Details

Glyph

👩‍🦽

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_200d_1f9bd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDBD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository