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U+2642 · MALE SIGN

Male Sign

  • CodepointU+2642
  • NameMALE SIGN
  • Emoji namemale sign
  • Decimal9794
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2642 (♂) is MALE SIGN, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “male sign”, in the Symbols group, subgroup gender. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2642 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ♂

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 99 823 bytes
UTF-1626421 code unit
UTF-32000026424 bytes
HTML named♂named character reference
HTML decimal♂
HTML hex♂
CSS\2642in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2642
JSON\u2642
Python\u2642
Python\N{MALE SIGN}by name
Java / C#\u2642
C / C++\u2642universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2642}
Go\u2642
Ruby\u2642
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9794)
URL-encoded%E2%99%82percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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