Woman in manual wheelchair

A woman in a manual wheelchair, standing for women who use wheelchairs and for accessibility.

Disabled women use it to represent themselves in bios and daily posts, and it appears in disability pride and advocacy content. It also fits adaptive sports, accessible travel tips and reviews of how well a venue handles access.

Facts

Woman in manual wheelchair 👩‍🦽 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins 👩 woman and 🦽 manual wheelchair. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :woman_in_manual_wheelchair:. People also look for it with words like “accessibility”, “manual”, “wheelchair”, or “woman”.

Made of

👩+🦽=👩‍🦽

Timeline

1. 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
2. 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 12.0