What 👩🦽➡️ means
A woman rolling in a manual wheelchair — facing right. The 👩🦽➡️ Woman In Manual Wheelchair Facing Right emoji arrived in Emoji 15.1 (September 2023) as part of the big directionality update: 108 of that release's emojis exist so people on our keyboards can finally move in both directions.
It mirrors the classic left-facing version, which matters more than it sounds — point an emoji toward the thing you're describing and a sentence suddenly has motion and intent.
How and when to use it
- Great for wheelchair sport, independence, and everyday representation: "Marathon training, week 6 👩🦽➡️ shoulders of steel."
- Point it at what comes next in your sentence — 👩🦽➡️🏁, 👩🦽➡️🏠, 👩🦽➡️✈️ — direction adds meaning.
- Combine with its left-facing twin for meet-in-the-middle moments and race commentary.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-activity
- Codepoints
U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9BD U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.1
- Shortcodes
:woman_in_manual_wheelchair_facing_right:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- accessibility, facing, manual, right, wheelchair, woman
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👩🦽➡️ Woman in Manual Wheelchair: Facing Right or 🇧🇦 Flag: Bosnia & Herzegovina?