Woman with white cane: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium skin tone walking while holding a long white cane. The cane is angled toward the ground, illustrating the tool used by visually impaired individuals to navigate their surroundings safely.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent accessibility, disability awareness, or to signal that someone is blind or has low vision. It serves as a visual shorthand for mobility aid usage and is frequently used alongside ♿ or 🦯 to discuss inclusive design and support for the visually impaired community.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a major push to increase representation of people with disabilities. It was designed to provide a more inclusive set of icons for users to identify their experiences and advocate for better accessibility in both digital and physical spaces.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🦯

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F9AF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f9af:

HTML Entity

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

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