Male Sign Emoji ♂

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U+2642

Emoji Meaning

A sign which is basically a circle with a line going up diagonally (1 or 2 o'clock) in the right direction. It is a male symbol, the colour of which varies across platforms. It can be dark blue, light blue, or yellow.

The symbol “Male Sign” is included in the “Astrological symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2016, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 4.0 and added to the “Gender” subcategory of the “Symbols” category.

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Synonyms

Mars, alchemical symbol for iron, gender.

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Unicode Name	Male Sign
Unicode Number
Entity	&male;
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode Subblock	Astrological symbols
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Emoji Version	4.0 (2016)
Emoji Category	Symbols
Emoji Subcategory	Gender
Emoji Name	Male Sign
Alt Code	Alt 11

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	2642
Simple case change	2642
Math	+
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Other_Math	+
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 99 82	226 153 130	14850434	11100010 10011001 10000010
UTF-16BE	26 42	38 66	9794	00100110 01000010
UTF-16LE	42 26	66 38	16934	01000010 00100110
UTF-32BE	00 00 26 42	0 0 38 66	9794	00000000 00000000 00100110 01000010
UTF-32LE	42 26 00 00	66 38 0 0	1109786624	01000010 00100110 00000000 00000000