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♂️ Male Sign Emoji

The ♂️ Male Sign emoji depicts the circle with an arrow pointing up-right, commonly used for male gender, biology, or men's topics.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Male Sign
Category
Symbols
Subcategory
Gender
Unicode
U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version
Emoji 4.0
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ♂️ Male Sign represents male gender, biological male symbol, men's health awareness (such as Movember), and male identity.

Quick Meaning

The ♂️ Male Sign emoji depicts the circle with an arrow pointing up-right, commonly used for male gender, biology, or men's topics.

Use Cases

How People Use ♂️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Representing male gender and biology

Representing male gender and biology.

Promoting men's health awareness initiatives

Promoting men's health awareness initiatives.

Designating male gender categories in genetics or science

Designating male gender categories in genetics or science.

Real Messages

♂️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ♂️.

“Male sign in genetics charts ♂️”

“Supporting men's health awareness ♂️”

“Biological symbol representation ♂️”

“Designating male categories in scientific research ♂️”

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Lookup Data

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Official Name

Male Sign

Subcategory: Gender

Aliases & Common Names

  • male sign
  • male symbol
  • mars symbol

Keywords & Search Terms

  • male sign
  • male
  • man
  • men
  • mars
  • gender
  • symbol
Developer Reference

♂️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+2642 U+FE0F
Code points
U+2642 U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x99 0x82 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u2642\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
♂️
HTML hexadecimal entity
♂️
JavaScript escape
\u{2642}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\2642 \FE0F
Python string
\u2642\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ♂️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
♂
U+2642Male Sign
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
Discovery

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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Male Sign emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Male Sign emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Male Sign emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Male Sign emoji in OpenMoji style

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The ♂️ Male Sign emoji depicts the circle with an arrow pointing up-right, commonly used for male gender, biology, or men's topics.