Woman with white cane

A woman walking with a white cane, standing for blind and low-vision women.

Blind women use it to represent themselves in profiles and everyday posts. It also shows up in disability pride content and in talks about accessible apps, streets and transit. Pair with 🦮 or ♿ for wider accessibility topics.

Facts

Woman with white cane 👩‍🦯 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 🦯 white cane. 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_with_probing_cane: or :woman_with_white_cane:. People also look for it with words like “accessibility”, “blind”, “cane”, or “probing”.

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