People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Woman With White Cane Facing Right Emoji
The mirrored version of the woman-with-cane emoji, same meaning, just facing right. Represents a blind or visually impaired woman, used for accessibility.
Released in 2023 as part of a set of directional emoji so pairs of walking figures could face toward each other in a sentence or row.
- Unicode
- U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :woman_
with_ white_ cane_ facing_ right: - Skin tones
- Yes
Added in Emoji 15.1. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 👩🦯➡️ Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F469 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your woman with white cane facing right looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji skin tones
👩🦯➡️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman_with_white_cane_facing_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F469.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👩🦯➡️ Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman with white cane facing right as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 4 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
07 — Combinations
Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman with white cane facing right for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👩🦯➡️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the woman with white cane facing right and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 👩🦯➡️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — Difference
👩🦯➡️ vs 💇♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman With White Cane Facing Right
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :woman_with_white_cane_facing_right:
The mirrored version of the woman-with-cane emoji, same meaning, just facing right.
Unicode name: Woman Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-getting-haircut:
Basically, it’s just a fun way to represent getting a haircut.
12 — History
Where the 👩🦯➡️ Woman With White Cane Facing Right emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Woman With White Cane Facing Right was approved as U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9AF U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 15.1 (2023). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👩🦯➡️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ