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♂️Male Sign Emoji

♂️ male sign — U+2642 U+FE0F, added in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Unicode groups it with the other 3 gender signs emojis under Symbols.

What ♂️ male sign means

Three symbols used in bios, pronoun lines and posts about identity rather than as decoration. ♀️ and ♂️ are much older than emoji, having long served as the astronomical marks for Venus and Mars before biology adopted them. The transgender symbol ⚧️ was added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020, alongside the transgender flag, after several years of proposals.

Unicode tags this one male, man and sign and files it under Symbols → Gender Signs.

Copy variants

male sign carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ♂️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

♂U+2642male sign
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2642 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`♂️`
HTML decimal	`♂️`
CSS	`\2642\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{2642}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U00002642\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u2642\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{2642}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{2642}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{2642}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 99 82 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`2642 FE0F`
Base64	`4pmC77iP`
Decimal	`9794 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 4.0 (2016)

Keywords

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How to type ♂️

Windows — press Win + . and search “male sign”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “male”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2642 and Enter.
HTML — paste ♂️.

How ♂️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

♂️Apple
♂️Segoe
♂️Noto
♂️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ♂️ male sign emoji mean?+

♂️ is the male sign emoji, tagged male, man and sign. Three symbols used in bios, pronoun lines and posts about identity rather than as decoration. ♀️ and ♂️ are much older than emoji, having long served as the astronomical marks for Venus and Mars before biology adopted them. The transgender symbol ⚧️ was added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020, alongside the transgender flag, after several years of proposals.

What is the Unicode code for ♂️?+

male sign is U+2642 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ♂️, in CSS \2642\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2642}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ♂️ emoji added?+

male sign got its emoji presentation in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 4.0 (2016)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ♂️ male sign.