Male, female and other Unicode gender and sex signs, with their official names.
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Last reviewed on October 31, 2026
♂ (U+2642) and ♀ (U+2640) are the standard male and female signs. They also double as the astronomical symbols for Mars and Venus, which is why they appear in zodiac and astronomy contexts as well. In biology, forms and statistics they are used to mark sex.
Unicode has several more gender-related characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. ⚥ combines the male and female signs, and ⚧ (male with stroke and male and female sign) is widely used as a symbol for transgender people. ⚲ is named neuter, and ⚦ ⚨ ⚩ are stroke variants. Their meanings depend on the community or document using them, so check context before relying on one.
These are text characters, so they use your font color. ♂ and ♀ can switch to emoji style on phones. Attaching U+FE0F forces emoji, and U+FE0E forces text. In emoji such as 🤷♀️, the sign is joined to a person by a zero width joiner, which is why it sometimes appears separated when a platform lacks the combined glyph.
When you label people, prefer the words they use for themselves, and treat the symbols as shorthand for forms, charts and biological or astronomical notation. A symbol alone can be ambiguous, so add text where precision matters, for example in a survey or a profile.
♂ is the male sign (U+2642) and ♀ is the female sign (U+2640). ⚥ (U+26A5) shows both together.
⚧ (U+26A7), officially named male with stroke and male and female sign, is the character commonly used for the transgender symbol.
Some systems render it as emoji by default. Add U+FE0E after it to request a plain text glyph that follows your text color.