What 👩🦯 means
Shown full body, this woman has tied hair and a casual outfit, one foot placed in front and the other behind as she walks, holding a white cane or walking stick in one hand.
The 👩🦯 Woman With White Cane emoji refers to a visually impaired woman. But, that's just the literal sense of it. Symbolically speaking, this emoji can have tons of meaning. It can signify an act of finding direction, following someone or something, lending a blind eye to something, etc.
This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If you work as an assistant to the blind, or at an organization that functions towards the overall wellbeing of the blind community, you can use 👩🦯 in your social media profile name.
- Apart from the literal usage of 👩🦯 , this emoji can be used to indicate a metaphorical sense of being blind or blinded towards someone or something. For example, "I was so involved with my routine, that I hardly noticed what was happening beneath it 👩🦯.
- If there was a dramatic exit that you witnessed, and you're texting your bestie about it, you can use 👩🦯 in such a context. Like "I have no idea what happened to him. But he just left the chat like a pointless whirlpool 👩🦯".
- You can also use 👩🦯 while posting an inspirational picture, tweet, or just a quote about finding direction in life, in general. If you're posting a flawless picture of yourself and you wish to add a motivational caption to it, use this emoji. For instance, "Don't go by the flow, direct it 👩🦯".
- 👩🦯 can be used in scenarios of showing ignorance or a lack of concern too.
Other Names
- 👩🦯 Blind Woman
- 👩🦯 The Blind
- 👩🦯 Woman With Visual Impairment
- 👩🦯 Visually Challenged
- 👩🦯 Woman With Walking Stick
- 👩🦯 Woman With Stick
- 👩🦯 Walking Stick
- 👩🦯 Blind Woman's Stick
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-activity
- Codepoints
U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9AF- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:woman_with_probing_cane:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- accessibility, blind, cane, probing, white, 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 with White Cane or 😦 Frowning Face with Open Mouth?