Woman in motorized wheelchair

A woman in a motorized wheelchair, standing for women who use power chairs and for accessibility.

Disabled women use it in bios and posts to represent themselves, and it appears in content about disability pride, adaptive fashion and travel. It pairs with ♿ in posts that ask for step-free access.

Facts

Woman in motorized 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 🦼 motorized 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_motorized_wheelchair:. People also look for it with words like “accessibility”, “motorized”, “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