What 👩🦼 means
A side profile of a woman sitting in an electric wheelchair with her feet resting on the footplate and the arms resting on the armrest, while the head looks forward.
The 👩🦼 Woman in Motorized Wheelchair emoji signifies a sense of reliance on others or the wheelchair. It can also denote helplessness, vulnerability, and dependency. Apart from that, it is an efficient symbol for paralympic sports, para-athletics, and the like.
This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting about disability or physical disability, in particular, you can use 👩🦼 in such contexts.
- If you're beginning to feel like someone or something is depending way too much on you and is starting to take a piece of you, that you're starting to feel a little suffocated, you can use 👩🦼 while texting your bestie about it.
- 👩🦼 can also be used to denote the term "Wheelchair Friendly".
- You can use 👩🦼 while expressing helplessness. If you've been feeling stuck in a particular situation and quite helpless about it, you can use this emoji while talking about it to a trusted close one.
- 👩🦼 can be used to indicate a dramatic exit. It gets even better when you pair it along with the 💨 Dashing Away emoji. Like "Aight. No sense being here. Bye, y'all 👩🦼💨.
- Since being on a powered wheelchair can also evoke a sense of independence (from people), 👩🦼 can also, somehow indicate the status of being single. So, you can use this emoji in such contexts (in a casual and playful way, of course).
Other Names
- 👩🦼 Woman on Wheelchair
- 👩🦼 Woman in a Powered Wheelchair
- 👩🦼 Woman in an Electric Wheelchair
- 👩🦼 Wheelchair User
- 👩🦼 Woman With Physical Disability
- 👩🦼 Physically Disabled
- 👩🦼 Woman Riding a Wheelchair
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-activity
- Codepoints
U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9BC- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:woman_in_motorized_wheelchair:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- accessibility, motorized, 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 Motorized Wheelchair or 🇧🇪 Flag: Belgium?